Jeremiah 38:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ All the officials did come to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he answered them in the very words the king had commanded. So they stopped questioning him, for the conversation had not been overheard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Then came all the princes to Jeremiah and asked him [just what King Zedekiah had anticipated they would ask], and he told them all that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him, for what the conversation [with the king] had been was not discovered.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Then all the officials approached Jeremiah to question him. And he responded exactly as the king had instructed him. So they stopped interrogating him because the conversation between the king and Jeremiah hadn’t been overheard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Then all the leaders came to Jeremiah, and they questioned him. And he spoke to them in accord with all the words that the king had commanded him. And they withdrew from him, for they had learned nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ So all the princes came to Jeremias and asked him: and he spoke to them according to all the words that the king had commanded him. And they left him: for nothing had been heard.

Jeremiah 38:27 Cross References

2 Kings 6:19

Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.

Jeremiah 38:25

If the officials should hear that I have spoken with you and come and say to you, ‘Just tell us what you said to the king; do not conceal it from us, or we will put you to death. What did the king say to you?’

Jeremiah 38:26

then you shall say to them, ‘I was presenting my plea to the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:28

And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Acts 23:6

When Paul noticed that some were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he called out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”