Jeremiah 38:17

Tree of Life Version

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah: Thus says Adonai, Elohim-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “If you will go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then your soul will live, this city will not be burned with fire; and you and your household will survive.

Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Please say that you are my sister, so that I’ll be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”

2 Kings 24:12

Then King Jehoiachin of Judah, his mother, his courtiers, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered to the king of Babylon. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 25:27

Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he became king, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from Prison.

1 Chronicles 17:24

so that it might be established and Your Name might be magnified forever, saying, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God.’ Then the house of David Your servant will be established before You.

Ezra 9:4

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered themselves around me because of the unfaithful act of the exiles. Devastated, I sat there until the evening offering.

Job 23:13

He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does.

Psalm 80:14

A boar from the forest ravages it, whatever moves in the field feeds on it.

Psalm 80:7

You make us a contention to our neighbors, and our enemies mock as they please.

Jeremiah 27:12

Then I spoke to King Zedekiah of Judah with all these same words, saying: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, serve him and his people—and live.

Jeremiah 27:17

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a ruin?

Jeremiah 27:8

“Now it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve the same King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,” declares Adonai, “until I have destroyed it by his hand.

Jeremiah 38:2

thus says Adonai: “He that remains in this city will die by the sword, by famine, and by plague, but anyone who goes out to the Chaldeans will live—so he will keep his life like the spoils of war, and will live.”

Jeremiah 39:3

Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sarezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sarezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of Babylon’s king.

Jeremiah 40:9

Then Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying: “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well for you.

Jeremiah 44:7

So now, thus says Adonai, Elohim-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “Why are you committing this great evil against your own souls? You cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child, from the midst of Judah, to leave yourself without a remnant.

Ezekiel 8:4

Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the valley.

Amos 5:27

So I will send you into exile, beyond Damascus.” Adonai has spoken, Elohei-Tzva’ot is His Name.