Jeremiah 37:11-16
1599 Geneva Bible
11 ¶ When the host of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem, because of Pharaoh’s army,
12 Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the [a]land of Benjamin, separating himself thence from among the people.
13 And when he was in the [b]gate of Benjamin, there was a chief officer, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he took Jeremiah the Prophet, saying, Thou [c]fleest to the Chaldeans.
14 Then said Jeremiah, That is false, I flee not to the Chaldeans: but he would not hear him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
15 Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and laid him in prison in the house of Jehonathan the Scribe: for they had made that the [d]prison.
16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the prisons, and had remained there a long time,
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- Jeremiah 37:12 As some think, to go to Anathoth his own town.
- Jeremiah 37:13 By the which men went into the country of Benjamin.
- Jeremiah 37:13 Hebrew, fallest.
- Jeremiah 37:15 Because it was a vile and straight prison.
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