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Jeremiah 37:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; "

Jeremiah 37:16

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14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

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Jeremiah 38:6

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"Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire."

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Jeremiah 38:10-13

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"Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die."

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Isaiah 51:14

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"The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail."

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Lamentations 3:53

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"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me."

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Genesis 40:15

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"For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

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Lamentations 3:55

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"I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon."

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From This Chapter

Jeremiah 37:1

"And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah."

Jeremiah 37:2

"But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah."

Jeremiah 37:3

"And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us."

Jeremiah 37:4

"Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison."

Jeremiah 37:5

"Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem."

Jeremiah 37:6

"Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,"

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