²⁵ Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the ^[a]buttress, and on the tower which projects from the king’s upper house that was by the ^(A)court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

² For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up ^(A)in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

²¹ Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah ^(A)to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers’ street, ^(B)until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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33 Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still ^(A)shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

^39 (A)and above the Gate of Ephraim, above ^(B)the Old Gate, above ^(C)the Fish Gate, ^(D)the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of ^[a]the Hundred, as far as ^(E)the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by ^(F)the Gate of the Prison.

³ the people of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;

¹⁴ then they sent someone ^(A)to take Jeremiah from the court of the prison, and committed him ^(B)to Gedaliah the son of ^(C)Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.

¹⁵ Meanwhile the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

^8 (A)And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with ^(B)fire, and broke down the ^(C)walls of Jerusalem.

⁴ So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose; and beside him, at his right hand, stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah; and at his left hand Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.