Sent and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison and committed him to Codolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, that he might go home and dwell among the people.
Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed into the entry of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.
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.