While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:
Jeremiah 38:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken [by the Chaldeans]. American Standard Version (1901) So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken Common English Bible Jeremiah remained in the prison quarters until Jerusalem was captured. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, Jeremiah remained at the entrance of the prison, until the day when Jerusalem was seized. And it happened that Jerusalem was captured. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken. |
While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:
So now please listen, my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Don’t send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.’
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.
They pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, but he remained in the guard’s courtyard.
All the officials did come to Jeremiah, and they questioned him. He reported to them the exact words that the king had commanded, and they stopped speaking with him because the conversation had not been overheard.
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guards, Nebushazban the chief of staff, Nergal-sharezer the chief soothsayer, and all the captains of Babylon’s king
had Jeremiah brought from the guard’s courtyard and turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he settled among his own people.
Now the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah when he was confined in the guard’s courtyard:
along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured #– #and yet the Lord rescued me from them all.