Jeremiah 37:21

New Century Version

So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be put under guard in the courtyard of the guard and to be given bread each day from the street of the bakers until there was no more bread in the city. So he stayed under guard in the courtyard of the guard.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.

Job 5:20

God will buy you back from death in times of hunger, and in battle he will save you from the sword.

Psalm 37:19

They will not be ashamed when trouble comes. They will be full in times of hunger.

Psalm 37:3

Trust the Lord and do good. Live in the land and feed on truth.

Proverbs 16:7

When people live so that they please the Lord, even their enemies will make peace with them.

Proverbs 21:1

The Lord can control a king’s mind as he controls a river; he can direct it as he pleases.

Isaiah 33:16

this is the kind of person who will be safe. He will be protected as he would be in a high, walled city. He will always have bread, and he will not run out of water.

Jeremiah 20:2

he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten. And he locked Jeremiah’s hands and feet between large blocks of wood at the Upper Gate of Benjamin of the Lord’s Temple.

Jeremiah 32:2

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was surrounding Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was under arrest in the courtyard of the guard, which was at the palace of the king of Judah.

Jeremiah 32:8

“Then it happened just as the Lord had said. My cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said to me, ‘Buy for yourself my field near Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. It is your right and duty to buy it and own it.’ So I knew this was a message from the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:1

While Jeremiah was still locked up in the courtyard of the guards, the Lord spoke his word to him a second time:

Jeremiah 38:13

The men pulled Jeremiah up with the ropes and lifted him out of the well. And Jeremiah stayed under guard in the courtyard of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:28

So Jeremiah stayed under guard in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

Jeremiah 38:6

So the officers took Jeremiah and put him into the well of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guards. The officers used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the well, which did not have any water in it, only mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Jeremiah 38:9

“My master and king, these rulers have acted in an evil way. They have treated Jeremiah the prophet badly. They have thrown him into a well and left him there to die! When there is no more bread in the city, he will starve to death.”

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city; there was no food for the people to eat.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot like an oven; we burn with starvation.

Matthew 6:33

Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well.

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in jail, but the church prayed earnestly to God for him.

Acts 24:27

But after two years, Felix was replaced by Porcius Festus as governor. But Felix had left Paul in prison to please the Jews.

Acts 28:16

When we arrived at Rome, Paul was allowed to live alone, with the soldier who guarded him.

Acts 28:30

Paul stayed two full years in his own rented house and welcomed all people who came to visit him.

Ephesians 4:1

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. Therefore I urge you who have been chosen by God to live up to the life to which God called you.

Ephesians 6:20

I have been sent to preach this Good News, and I am doing that now, here in prison. Pray that when I preach the Good News I will speak without fear, as I should.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed to tell people about our Lord Jesus, and do not be ashamed of me, in prison for the Lord. But suffer with me for the Good News. God, who gives us the strength to do that,

2 Timothy 2:9

and I am suffering because of it to the point of being bound with chains like a criminal. But God’s teaching is not in chains.