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Jeremiah 32:2

JeremiahJudahBabylonJerusalem

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

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BSB
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
KJV
For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
WEB
Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
ASV
Now at that time the king of Babylon`s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah`s house.
DARBY
And the king of Babylon's army was then besieging Jerusalem; and the prophet Jeremiah was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
BLB
And then the army of the king of Babylon was pressing upon Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that [was] [in] the house of the king of Judah.
ÅB
Dengang holdt Babels konges hær Jerusalem kringsatt, og profeten Jeremias var innestengt i vaktgården i Judas konges hus;
OTB
På den tiden beleiret hæren til kongen av Babylon Jerusalem, og profeten Jeremias var innesperret i vaktgården ved det kongelige palasset i Juda.
B1930
Dengang holdt Babels konges hær Jerusalem kringsatt, og profeten Jeremias var innestengt i vaktgården i Judas konges hus;

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  • Jeremiah 37:21

    So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

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  • Nehemiah 3:25

    and Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh

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  • Jeremiah 38:6

    So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

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  • Jeremiah 33:1

    While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

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  • Jeremiah 32:8

    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

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  • Jeremiah 39:13–15

    So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylon

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  • Jeremiah 36:5

    Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;

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  • Matthew 5:12

    Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

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