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Thus says the Lord: This city shall certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon; he shall capture it.

Then the princes said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death. He is weakening the resolve[a] of the soldiers left in this city and of all the people, by saying such things to them; he is not seeking the welfare of our people, but their ruin.”(A) King Zedekiah answered: “He is in your hands,” for the king could do nothing with them.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:4 He is weakening the resolve: lit., “he weakens the hands.” One of the Lachish ostraca (cf. note on 34:7) makes the same claim against the princes in Jerusalem.