Jeremiah 38 (NIV11)

1 Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehukal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah heard what Jeremiah was telling all the people when he said, 2 “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.’ 3 And this is what the LORD says: ‘This city will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.’ ” 4 Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.” 5 “He is in your hands,” King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing to oppose you.” 6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud. 7 But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate, 8 Ebed-Melek went out of the palace and said to him, 9 “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.” 10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melek the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.” 11 So Ebed-Melek took the men with him and went to a room under the treasury in the palace. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from there and let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern. 12 Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so, 13 and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard. 14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.” 15 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I give you an answer, will you not kill me? Even if I did give you counsel, you would not listen to me.” 16 But King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly to Jeremiah: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us breath, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who want to kill you.” 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live. 18 But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians and they will burn it down; you yourself will not escape from them.’ ” 19 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians may hand me over to them and they will mistreat me.” 20 “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the LORD by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well with you, and your life will be spared. 21 But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the LORD has revealed to me: 22 All the women left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you:“ ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours.Your feet are sunk in the mud;your friends have deserted you.’ 23 “All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon; and this city will be burned down.” 24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you may die. 25 If the officials hear that I talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us or we will kill you,’ 26 then tell them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house to die there.’ ” 27 All the officials did come to Jeremiah and question him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard his conversation with the king. 28 And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.This is how Jerusalem was taken:

In Other Versions

Jeremiah 38 in the ANGEFD

Jeremiah 38 in the ANTPNG2D

Jeremiah 38 in the AS21

Jeremiah 38 in the BAGH

Jeremiah 38 in the BBPNG

Jeremiah 38 in the BBT1E

Jeremiah 38 in the BDS

Jeremiah 38 in the BEV

Jeremiah 38 in the BHAD

Jeremiah 38 in the BIB

Jeremiah 38 in the BLPT

Jeremiah 38 in the BNT

Jeremiah 38 in the BNTABOOT

Jeremiah 38 in the BNTLV

Jeremiah 38 in the BOATCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BOATCB2

Jeremiah 38 in the BOBCV

Jeremiah 38 in the BOCNT

Jeremiah 38 in the BOECS

Jeremiah 38 in the BOGWICC

Jeremiah 38 in the BOHCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BOHCV

Jeremiah 38 in the BOHLNT

Jeremiah 38 in the BOHNTLTAL

Jeremiah 38 in the BOICB

Jeremiah 38 in the BOILNTAP

Jeremiah 38 in the BOITCV

Jeremiah 38 in the BOKCV

Jeremiah 38 in the BOKCV2

Jeremiah 38 in the BOKHWOG

Jeremiah 38 in the BOKSSV

Jeremiah 38 in the BOLCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BOLCB2

Jeremiah 38 in the BOMCV

Jeremiah 38 in the BONAV

Jeremiah 38 in the BONCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BONLT

Jeremiah 38 in the BONUT2

Jeremiah 38 in the BOPLNT

Jeremiah 38 in the BOSCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BOSNC

Jeremiah 38 in the BOTLNT

Jeremiah 38 in the BOVCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BOYCB

Jeremiah 38 in the BPBB

Jeremiah 38 in the BPH

Jeremiah 38 in the BSB

Jeremiah 38 in the CCB

Jeremiah 38 in the CUV

Jeremiah 38 in the CUVS

Jeremiah 38 in the DBT

Jeremiah 38 in the DGDNT

Jeremiah 38 in the DHNT

Jeremiah 38 in the DNT

Jeremiah 38 in the ELBE

Jeremiah 38 in the EMTV

Jeremiah 38 in the ESV

Jeremiah 38 in the FBV

Jeremiah 38 in the FEB

Jeremiah 38 in the GGMNT

Jeremiah 38 in the GNT

Jeremiah 38 in the HARY

Jeremiah 38 in the HNT

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVA

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVB

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVG

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVH

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVK

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVM

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVM2

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVO

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVP

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVT

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVT2

Jeremiah 38 in the IRVU

Jeremiah 38 in the ISVN

Jeremiah 38 in the JSNT

Jeremiah 38 in the KAPI

Jeremiah 38 in the KBT1ETNIK

Jeremiah 38 in the KBV

Jeremiah 38 in the KJV

Jeremiah 38 in the KNFD

Jeremiah 38 in the LBA

Jeremiah 38 in the LBLA

Jeremiah 38 in the LNT

Jeremiah 38 in the LSV

Jeremiah 38 in the MAAL

Jeremiah 38 in the MBV

Jeremiah 38 in the MBV2

Jeremiah 38 in the MHNT

Jeremiah 38 in the MKNFD

Jeremiah 38 in the MNG

Jeremiah 38 in the MNT

Jeremiah 38 in the MNT2

Jeremiah 38 in the MRS1T

Jeremiah 38 in the NAA

Jeremiah 38 in the NASB

Jeremiah 38 in the NBLA

Jeremiah 38 in the NBS

Jeremiah 38 in the NBVTP

Jeremiah 38 in the NET2

Jeremiah 38 in the NNT

Jeremiah 38 in the NNT2

Jeremiah 38 in the NNT3

Jeremiah 38 in the PDDPT

Jeremiah 38 in the PFNT

Jeremiah 38 in the RMNT

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIAS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIBS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIBS2

Jeremiah 38 in the SBICS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIDS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIGS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIHS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIIS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIIS2

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIIS3

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIKS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIKS2

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIMS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIOS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIPS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBISS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBITS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBITS2

Jeremiah 38 in the SBITS3

Jeremiah 38 in the SBITS4

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIUS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBIVS

Jeremiah 38 in the SBT

Jeremiah 38 in the SBT1E

Jeremiah 38 in the SCHL

Jeremiah 38 in the SNT

Jeremiah 38 in the SUSU

Jeremiah 38 in the SUSU2

Jeremiah 38 in the SYNO

Jeremiah 38 in the TBIAOTANT

Jeremiah 38 in the TBT1E

Jeremiah 38 in the TBT1E2

Jeremiah 38 in the TFTIP

Jeremiah 38 in the TFTU

Jeremiah 38 in the TGNTATF3T

Jeremiah 38 in the THAI

Jeremiah 38 in the TNFD

Jeremiah 38 in the TNT

Jeremiah 38 in the TNTIK

Jeremiah 38 in the TNTIL

Jeremiah 38 in the TNTIN

Jeremiah 38 in the TNTIP

Jeremiah 38 in the TNTIZ

Jeremiah 38 in the TOMA

Jeremiah 38 in the TTENT

Jeremiah 38 in the UBG

Jeremiah 38 in the UGV

Jeremiah 38 in the UGV2

Jeremiah 38 in the UGV3

Jeremiah 38 in the VBL

Jeremiah 38 in the VDCC

Jeremiah 38 in the YALU

Jeremiah 38 in the YAPE

Jeremiah 38 in the YBVTP

Jeremiah 38 in the ZBP