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.