Jeremiah 38:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 37:21

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.

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.

Job 31:34

because I greatly feared the crowds and because the contempt of the clans terrified me, so I grew silent and would not go outside?

Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-melech went from the king’s palace and spoke to the king:

Jeremiah 38:10

So the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Cushite, ‘Take from here thirty men under your authority  and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.’

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan while they search for bread. They have traded their precious belongings for food in order to stay alive. Lord, look and see how I have become despised.

Lamentations 3:53

They smothered my life in   a pit and threw stones on me.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.”

Jeremiah 39:17

But I will rescue you on that day #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and you will not be handed over to the men you dread.