Jeremiah 37:20

Easy To Read Version

But now, my lord, king of Judah, please listen to me. Please let me bring my request to you. This is what I ask: Don’t send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe. If you send me back, I will die there.”

Cross References

Psalm 119:170

Lord, listen to my prayer.\par Save me, like you promised.\par

Jeremiah 26:15

But if you kill me, be sure of one thing. You will be guilty of killing an innocent person. You will make this city and everyone that lives in it guilty, too. The Lord really did send me to you. The message you heard really is from the Lord.”

Jeremiah 36:7

Perhaps those people will ask the Lord to help them. Perhaps each person will stop doing bad things. The Lord has announced that he is very angry with those people.”

Jeremiah 38:26

If they say this to you, then tell them, ‘I was begging the king not to send me back to the cell in the dungeon {\cf2\super [330]} under Jonathan’s house. If I were to go back there, I would die.’”

Jeremiah 38:28

So Jeremiah stayed under guard in the temple yard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

Jeremiah 42:2

All those people said to him, “Jeremiah, please listen to what we ask. Pray to the Lord your God for all these people that are survivors {\cf2\super [344]} from the family of Judah. Jeremiah, you can see that there are not many of us left. At one time there were many of us.