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Jeremiah 32:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

At that time, the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem,  and the prophet Jeremiah was imprisoned in the guard’s courtyard  in the palace of the king of Judah.

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So King Zedekiah gave orders, and Jeremiah was placed in the guard’s courtyard.  He was given a loaf of bread each day from the bakers’ street until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard.


Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the Angle and tower that juts out from the king’s upper palace,  , by the courtyard of the guard.  Beside him Pedaiah son of Parosh


So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.


While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard,  the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:


‘Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard and urged me, “Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.


Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted   the prophets who were before you.


Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, ‘I am restricted;  I cannot enter the temple of the Lord,


King Zedekiah of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, ‘Why are you prophesying as you do? You say, “This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to hand this city over to Babylon’s king, and he will capture it.


This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,  his whole army, all the kingdoms of the lands under his control,  and all other peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities:


Jeremiah was going about his daily tasks  among the people, for he had not yet been put into the prison.


They pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, but he remained in the guard’s courtyard.


In the ninth year  of Zedekiah’s reign,  on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army.  They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all round.


The officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan  the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.





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