Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:
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1 Chronicles 17:24So let your words be made certain and your name be made great, when men say, The Lord of armies is the God of Israel; and when the family of David your servant is made strong before you.
Job 23:13But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
Psalms 80:14\80:13\It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
Jeremiah 21:8And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.
Jeremiah 21:10For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.
Jeremiah 27:17Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 38:15-28
Zedekiah's Conference with Jeremiah. ( b. c. 589.) 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord : and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. 15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me? 16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this… Read the whole commentary →