By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.
Jeremiah 37:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard, and a round loaf of bread from the bakers' street was given to him daily until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained [imprisoned] in the court of the guard. American Standard Version (1901) Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. Common English Bible So King Zedekiah gave orders that Jeremiah be held in the prison quarters and that he receive a loaf of bread daily from the street vendors—until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the prison quarters. |
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.
In famine he will redeem you from death, and in battle, from the power of the sword.
When a person’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
A king’s heart is like channelled water in the Lord’s hand: He directs it wherever he chooses.
he will dwell on the heights; his refuge will be the rocky fortresses, his food provided, his water assured.
So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the Lord’s temple.
At that time, the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was imprisoned in the guard’s courtyard in the palace of the king of Judah.
‘Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard and urged me, “Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:
They pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, but he remained in the guard’s courtyard.
Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened.
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
‘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.’
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.
But seek first the kingdom of God , and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.
After two years had passed, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix, and because Felix wanted to do the Jews a favour, he left Paul in prison.
When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
Paul stayed for two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,
Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,
For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough to speak about it as I should.
So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me his prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.
for which I suffer to the point of being bound like a criminal. But the word of God is not bound.