Jeremiah 38:20-28
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Chapter 38
20Jeremiah said, "You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the Lord in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared. 21But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the Lord has shown to me: 22Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, "‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.’
24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.
25If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’
26then you shall say to them, ‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’"
27Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.
28And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
