RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

cords. And in the dungeon there was no mayim, but mud:
so Yirmeyahu sank in the mud.
7 Now when Eved-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the
officers who was in the melech's bayit, heard that they
had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon; the melech was
sitting in the Gate of Benyamin;
8 Eved-Melech went forth out of the melech's bayit, and
spoke to the melech, saying,
9 My master the melech, these men have done evil in all
that they have done to Yirmeyahu the navi, whom they
have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die of
hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more
lechem in the city.
10 Then the melech commanded Eved-Melech the
Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with you,
and take up Yirmeyahu the navi out of the dungeon,
before he dies.
11 So Eved-Melech took the men with him, and went into
the bayit of the melech under the treasury, and took there
old worn-out clothes and old rotten rags, and let them
down by cords into the dungeon to Yirmeyahu.
12 And Eved-Melech the Ethiopian said to Yirmeyahu,
Put now these old worn-out clothes and rotten rags under
your armpits under the cords. And Yirmeyahu did so.
13 So they drew up Yirmeyahu with cords, and took him
up out of the dungeon: and Yirmeyahu remained in the
court of the guard.
14 Then Tzidkiyahu the melech sent, and took Yirmeyahu
the navi to him into the third entrance that is in the Bayit
of vuvh: and the melech said to Yirmeyahu, I will ask you
something; hide nothing from me.
15 Then Yirmeyahu said to Tzidkiyahu, If I declare it to
you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give
you counsel, will you not listen to me?
16 So Tzidkiyahu the melech swore secretly to
Yirmeyahu, saying, As vuvh lives, that made us in this
chayim, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you
into the hands of these men that seek your chayim.
17 Then said Yirmeyahu to Tzidkiyahu, This says vuvh,
the Elohim tzevaoth, the Elohim of Yisrael; If you will
surely go out to the melech of Bavel's leaders, then your
being shall live, and this city shall not be burned with
fire; and you shall live, and your bayit:
18 But if you will not go forth to the melech of Bavel's
leaders, then shall this city be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall
not escape out of their hand.
19 And Tzidkiyahu the melech said to Yirmeyahu, I am
afraid of the Yahudim that have gone over to the
Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they
mistreat me.
20 But Yirmeyahu said, They shall not hand you over.
Obey, I beg you, the voice of vuvh, which I speak to you:
so it shall be well with you, and your being shall live.
21 But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that vuvh
has shown me:
22 And, see, all the women that are left in the melech of
Yahudah's bayit shall be brought forth to the melech of
Bavel's leaders, and those women shall say, Your close
chaverim have deceived you, and have prevailed against
you: your feet are sunk in the mud, and they are turned
away back.
23 So they shall bring out all your wives and your
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children to the Chaldeans: and you shall not escape out of
their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the melech of
Bavel: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
24 Then said Tzidkiyahu to Yirmeyahu, Let no man know
of these words, and you shall not die.
25 But if the leaders hear that I have talked with you, and
they come to you, and say to you, Declare to us now what
you have said to the melech, hide it not from us, and we
will not put you to death; also what the melech said to
you:
26 Then you shall say to them, I presented my petition
before the melech, that he would not cause me to shuv to
Yonathan's bayit, to die there.
27 Then came all the leaders to Yirmeyahu, and asked
him: and he told them according to all these words that
the melech had commanded. So they stopped speaking
with him, for the matter was not perceived.
28 So Yirmeyahu stayed in the court of the guard to the
day that Yahrushalayim was taken: and he was there
when Yahrushalayim was taken.
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In the ninth year of Tzidkiyahu melech of Yahudah,
in the tenth month, came Nevuchadnetzar melech of
Bavel and all his army against Yahrushalayim, and they
besieged it.
2 And in the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu, in the fourth
month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken
up.
3 And all the leaders of the melech of Bavel came in, and
sat in the Middle Gate, even Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-
Nevo, Sarsechim, Rav-Saris, Nergal-Sharezer, Ravmag,
with all the rest of the leaders of the melech of Bavel.
4 And it came to pass, that when Tzidkiyahu the melech
of Yahudah saw them, and all the men of war saw them,
then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by
the derech of the melech's gan, by the gate between the
two walls: and he went out to the desert plain.
5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and
overtook Tzidkiyahu in the plains of Yericho: and when
they had taken him, they brought him up to
Nevuchadnetzar melech of Bavel to Rivlah in the land of
Hamath, where he gave mishpat against him.
6 Then the melech of Bavel killed the sons of Tzidkiyahu
in Rivlah before his eyes: also the melech of Bavel killed
all the nobles of Yahudah.
7 Moreover he put out Tzidkiyahu's eyes, and bound him
with chains, to carry him to Bavel.
8 And the Chaldeans burned the melech's bayit, and the
houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls
of Yahrushalayim.
9 Then Nevuzaradan the captain of the army carried away
into exile to Bavel the remnant of the people that
remained in the city, and those that defected to him, with
the rest of the people that remained.
10 But Nevuzaradan the captain of the army left the poor
of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Yahudah,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
11 Now Nevuchadnetzar melech of Bavel gave an order
concerning Yirmeyahu to Nevuzaradan the captain of the
army, saying,
12 Take him, and look after him, and do not harm him;
but do for him whatever he shall say to you.
13 So Nevuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and