Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah gave an order. His servants confined Jeremiah in the courtyard of the guard. A loaf of bread was given him every day from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard.

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In The King James Version

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

In Context

20But now listen, my master the king! Let my pleas come before you. Do not return me to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:52They will besiege you in all your city gates, until your high and fortified walls come down everywhere in your land, walls in which you had trusted. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout all the land that Yahweh your God had given you.

2 Kings 25:3On the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Psalms 33:18See, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, 1 on those who hope in his covenant faithfulness 1

Psalms 37:3Trust in Yahweh and do what is good; 1 settle in the land and graze in faithfulness. 1

Proverbs 16:7When a person's ways are pleasing to Yahweh, 1 he makes even that person's enemies to be at peace with him. 1

Isaiah 33:16this is the man who will dwell on the heights, 1 his place of defense will be the fortress among the cliffs, 1 his food will be given, and his water will be in steady supply. 1

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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