Jeremiah 38:24-26

Common English Bible

²⁴ Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “No one is to know about these matters or else you will die. ²⁵ If the officials find out that we met, and they come and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king. Don’t hide anything from us; otherwise, we’ll kill you. So what did the king say to you?’ ²⁶ you should say to them, ‘I was begging the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”