Иер 38
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Иеремия в пустом колодце
38 Шефатия, сын Маттана, Гедалия, сын Пашхура, Юхал, сын Шелемии, и Пашхур, сын Малхии, услышали то, что Иеремия говорил всему народу: 2 «Так говорит Вечный: “Все, кто останется в этом городе, умрут от меча, голода или мора, а все, кто выйдет к вавилонянам, уцелеют. Они спасут свои жизни и останутся в живых”. 3 Так говорит Вечный: “Этот город непременно достанется войску царя Вавилона, который захватит его”».
4 И придворные сказали царю:
– Этого человека нужно предать смерти. Его слова лишают присутствия духа и воинов, которые остались в этом городе, и весь народ. Этот человек ищет твоему народу не добра, а погибели.
5 – Он в ваших руках, – ответил царь Цедекия. – Царь не может сделать ничего вопреки вашей воле.
6 Они схватили Иеремию и бросили его в колодец Малхии, сына царя, который находился во дворе темницы. Они опустили Иеремию в колодец на верёвках. В нём не было воды, только тина, и Иеремия погрузился в неё.
7 Но эфиоп Эвед-Малик, сановник из царского дворца, услышал о том, что придворные бросили Иеремию в колодец, и когда царь сидел у Вениаминовых ворот, 8 Эвед-Малик вышел из дворца и сказал ему:
9 – Господин мой царь, эти люди совершили грех, поступив так с пророком Иеремией. Они бросили его в колодец, в котором его ждёт голодная смерть, когда в городе не останется больше хлеба.
10 Тогда царь повелел эфиопу Эвед-Малику:
– Возьми с собой отсюда тридцать человек и вытащи пророка Иеремию из колодца, прежде чем он умрёт.
11 Эвед-Малик взял с собой людей и пошёл во дворец, в комнату под сокровищницей. Он взял там тряпьё и изношенную одежду и спустил это на верёвках в колодец к Иеремии. 12 Потом он сказал Иеремии:
– Подложи это тряпьё и изношенную одежду себе под мышки, чтобы не натереть верёвкой.
Иеремия так и сделал, 13 и его вытянули на верёвках из колодца. После этого он остался в царской темнице.
Цедекия вновь просит совета у Иеремии
14 Царь Цедекия послал за Иеремией, и пророка привели к третьему входу в храм Вечного.
– Я хочу спросить у тебя кое-что, – сказал царь Иеремии. – Не скрывай от меня ничего.
15 Иеремия сказал Цедекии:
– Если я отвечу тебе, разве ты не убьёшь меня? Даже если я дам тебе совет, ты меня не послушаешь.
16 Но царь Цедекия тайно поклялся Иеремии:
– Верно, как и то, что жив Вечный, Который вложил в нас дыхание, – я не убью тебя и не выдам тем, кто ищет твоей смерти.
17 Тогда Иеремия сказал Цедекии:
– Так говорит Вечный, Бог Сил, Бог Исроила: «Если ты сдашься полководцам царя Вавилона, твою жизнь пощадят, а этот город не сожгут; и ты, и твоя семья уцелеете. 18 А если ты не сдашься полководцам царя Вавилона, этот город достанется вавилонянам, и они сожгут его, и ты сам не спасёшься от их рук».
19 Царь Цедекия сказал Иеремии:
– Я боюсь иудеев, которые перебежали к вавилонянам, ведь вавилоняне могут выдать меня им, и те меня растерзают.
20 – Они тебя не выдадут, – сказал Иеремия. – Послушай Вечного, сделай так, как я тебе сказал. Тогда ты будешь благополучен и останешься жив. 21 А если ты откажешься сдаться, то вот, что открыл мне Вечный: 22 всех женщин, которые остались во дворце царя Иудеи, выведут к военачальникам царя Вавилона. Эти женщины будут говорить тебе:
«Сбили с пути тебя и одолели
твои преданные друзья.
Твои ноги погрузились в грязь;
твои друзья тебя покинули».
23 Всех твоих жён и детей выведут к вавилонянам. Ты и сам не спасёшься от их рук, но будешь схвачен царём Вавилона, а этот город будет сожжён.
24 Тогда Цедекия сказал Иеремии:
– Пусть никто не знает об этом разговоре, иначе ты умрёшь. 25 Если вельможи, узнав, что я говорил с тобой, придут к тебе и скажут: «Поведай нам, что ты сказал царю, и что сказал тебе царь. Не скрывай от нас ничего, иначе мы тебя убьём», 26 то скажи им: «Я просил царя не отправлять меня обратно в дом Ионафана, чтобы мне не умереть там».
27 Все вельможи собрались к Иеремии расспросить его, и он ответил им так, как велел ему царь. Тогда они ему ничего не сказали, так как никто не слышал, о чём он говорил с царём.
28 И Иеремия оставался в царской темнице до того дня, пока Иерусалим не был взят.
Jeremiah 38
Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah Is Held Prisoner in a Dry Well
38 One day, Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jehucal,[a] and Pashhur[b] heard me tell the people of Judah 2-3 that the Lord had said, “If you stay here in Jerusalem, you will die in battle or from disease or hunger, and the Babylonian army will capture the city anyway. But if you surrender to the Babylonians, they will let you live.”
4 So the four of them went to the king and said, “You should put Jeremiah to death, because he is making the soldiers and everyone else lose hope. He isn't trying to help our people; he's trying to harm them.”
5 Zedekiah replied, “Do what you want with him. I can't stop you.”
6 Then they took me back to the courtyard of the palace guards and let me down with ropes into the well that belonged to Malchiah, the king's son. There was no water in the well, but I sank down in the mud.
7-8 Ebedmelech from Ethiopia[c] was an official at the palace, and he heard what they had done to me. So he went to speak with King Zedekiah, who was holding court at Benjamin Gate. 9 Ebedmelech said, “Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there.”
10 Zedekiah answered, “Take 30[d] of my soldiers and pull Jeremiah out before he dies.”
11 Ebedmelech and the soldiers went to the palace and got some rags from the room under the treasury. He used ropes to lower them into the well. 12 Then he said, “Put these rags under your arms so the ropes won't hurt you.” After I did, 13 the men pulled me out. And from then on, I was kept in the courtyard of the palace guards.
King Zedekiah Questions Jeremiah
14 King Zedekiah[e] had me brought to his private entrance[f] to the temple, and he said, “I'm going to ask you something, and I want to know the truth.”
15 “Why?” I replied. “You won't listen, and you might even have me killed!”
16 He said, “I swear in the name of the living Lord our Creator that I won't have you killed. No one else can hear what we say, and I won't let anyone kill you.”
17 Then I told him that the Lord had said: “Zedekiah, I am the Lord God All-Powerful, the God of Israel. I promise that if you surrender to King Nebuchadnezzar's[g] officers, you and your family won't be killed, and Jerusalem won't be burned down. 18 But if you don't surrender, I will let the Babylonian army capture Jerusalem and burn it down, and you will be taken prisoner.”
19 Zedekiah answered, “I can't surrender to the Babylonians. I'm too afraid of the people of Judah who have already joined them. The Babylonians might hand me over to them, and they would torture me.”
20 I said, “If you will just obey the Lord, the Babylonians won't hand you over to those Jews. You will be allowed to live, and all will go well for you. 21 But the Lord has shown me that if you refuse to obey, 22 then the women of your palace will be taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar's officials. And those women will say to you:
Friends you trusted led you astray.
Now you're trapped in mud,
and those friends you trusted
have all turned away.
23 The Babylonian army will take your wives and children captive, you will be taken as a prisoner to the King of Babylonia, and Jerusalem will be burned down.”[h]
24 Zedekiah said, “Jeremiah, if you tell anyone what we have talked about, you might lose your life. 25 And I'm sure that if my officials hear about our meeting, they will ask you what we said to each other. They might even threaten to kill you if you don't tell them. 26 So if they question you, tell them you were begging me not to send you back to the prison at Jonathan's house, because going back there would kill you.”
27 The officials did come and question me about my meeting with the king, and I told them exactly what he had ordered me to say. They never spoke to me about the meeting again, since no one had heard us talking.
28 (A) I was held in the courtyard of the palace guards until the day Jerusalem was captured.
Footnotes
- 38.1 Jehucal: The Hebrew text has “Jucal,” another form of the name.
- 38.1 Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jehucal, and Pashhur: Hebrew “Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah.”
- 38.7,8 Ethiopia: The Hebrew text has “Cush,” a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.
- 38.10 30: Most Hebrew manuscripts; one Hebrew manuscript “three.”
- 38.14 Zedekiah: See the note at 1.3.
- 38.14 his private entrance: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 38.17 Nebuchadnezzar's: See the note at 21.2.
- 38.23 Jerusalem will be burned down: A few Hebrew manuscripts and three ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “you will burn Jerusalem down”; one ancient translation “he will burn Jerusalem down.”
Jeremiah 38
King James Version
38 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
2 Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
3 Thus saith the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
6 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.
7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king saying,
9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
10 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.
11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the Lord hath shewed me:
22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
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