Jeremiah 37:20

And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before me, and I will visit them that afflict them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

In Context

19And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.

21And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to me? saith the Lord.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 26:15Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.

Jeremiah 38:6For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.

Jeremiah 42:2Go to the house of the Rechabites, and thou shalt bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 37:12-21

Jeremiah Attempts to Quit Jerusalem; Jeremiah Imprisoned; Jeremiah Favoured by the King. ( b. c. 589.) 11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, 12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. 13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah… Read the whole commentary →

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