Jeremiah 37:21

Conservative English Version

King Zedekiah had me taken to the prison cells in the courtyard of the palace guards. He told the soldiers to give me a loaf of bread from one of the bakeries every day until the city ran out of grain.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

(SEE 25:2)

Job 5:20

In times of war and famine, God will keep you safe.

Psalm 37:19

They won't be in trouble when times are bad, and they will have plenty when food is scarce.

Psalm 37:3

Trust the LORD and live right! The land will be yours, and you will be safe.

Proverbs 16:7

When we please the LORD, even our enemies make friends with us.

Proverbs 21:1

The LORD controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

Isaiah 33:16

They will live in a fortress high on a rocky cliff, where they will have food and plenty of water.

Jeremiah 20:2

and so he hit me. Then he had me arrested and put in chains at the Benjamin Gate in the LORD's temple.

Jeremiah 32:2

At that time, the Babylonian army had surrounded Jerusalem, and I was in the prison at the courtyard of the palace guards.

Jeremiah 32:8

Hanamel came, just as the LORD had promised. And he said, "Please buy my field near Anathoth in the territory of the Benjamin tribe. You have the right to buy it, and if you do, it will stay in our family." The LORD had told me to buy it

Jeremiah 33:1

I was still being held prisoner in the courtyard of the palace guards when the LORD told me: I am the LORD, and I created the whole world.

Jeremiah 38:13

the men pulled me out. And from then on, I was kept in the courtyard of the palace guards.

Jeremiah 38:28

I was held in the courtyard of the palace guards until the day Jerusalem was captured.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then they took me back to the courtyard of the palace guards and let me down with ropes into the well that belonged to Malchiah, the king's son. There was no water in the well, and I sank down in the mud.

Jeremiah 38:9

Ebedmelech said, "Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there."

Jeremiah 52:6

(SEE 52:5)

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is scorched from fever and hunger.

Matthew 6:33

But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.

Acts 12:5

While Peter was being kept in jail, the church never stopped praying to God for him.

Acts 24:27

Two years later Porcius Festus became governor in place of Felix. But since Felix wanted to do the Jewish leaders a favor, he kept Paul in jail.

Acts 28:16

We arrived in Rome, and Paul was allowed to live in a house by himself with a soldier to guard him.

Acts 28:30

For two years Paul stayed in a rented house and welcomed everyone who came to see him.

Ephesians 4:1

As a prisoner of the Lord, I beg you to live in a way that is worthy of the people God has chosen to be his own.

Ephesians 6:20

I was sent to do this work, and that's the reason I am in jail. So pray that I will be brave and will speak as I should.

2 Timothy 1:8

Don't be ashamed to speak for our Lord. And don't be ashamed of me, just because I am in jail for serving him. Use the power that comes from God and join with me in suffering for telling the good news.

2 Timothy 2:9

And because of this message, I am locked up in jail and treated like a criminal. But God's good news isn't locked in jail,