Jeremiah 38:24-26

New Catholic Bible

²⁴ Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know of this conversation, or you will die. ²⁵ If the officials learn that I have spoken with you, and they say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hold anything back from us or we will put you to death,’ ²⁶ give them this answer, ‘I was simply pleading with the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’ ”