Jeremiah 37:19
17 Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
18 Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
20 But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
- KJV
- Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
- WEB
- Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land’?
- ASV
- Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
- DARBY
- And where are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
- BLB
- Where indeed [are] your⁺ prophets who prophesied to you⁺, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you⁺ or against this land’?
- ÅB
- Og hvor er nå deres profeter, de som profeterte for dere og sa: Babels konge skal ikke komme over dere og over dette land?
- OTB
- Hvor er nå dine profeter som profeterte for deg, ‘Kongen av Babylon vil ikke angripe deg eller dette landet’?
- B1930
- Og hvor er nu eders profeter, de som profeterte for eder og sa: Babels konge skal ikke komme over eder og over dette land?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 28:10–17
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
Read in contextJeremiah 6:14
They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
Read in context2 Kings 3:13
Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
Read in contextJeremiah 8:11
They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:13–15
“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Read in contextJeremiah 28:1–5
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Read in contextJeremiah 23:17
They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
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