Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 37:20 in context
Jeremiah 37:17–21
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then Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from the LORD?”
Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
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Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
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Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land’?
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Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
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Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
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