Jeremiah 38:5

For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and praise.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

In Context

4For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.

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.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:24And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, in that I have transgressed the word of the Lord and thy direction; for I feared the people, and I hearkened to their voice.

2 Samuel 3:39And that I am this day a mere kinsman of his, and as it were a subject; but these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me: the Lord reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.

Proverbs 29:25They fearing and reverencing men unreasonably have been overthrown, 1 But he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. 1 Ungodliness causes a man to stumble: 1 But he that trusts in his master shall be safe. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 38:2-14

Jeremiah Put into the Dungeon; Ebed-melech's Care of Jeremiah. ( b. c. 589.) 1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord , He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live. 3 Thus saith… Read the whole commentary →

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