035:010 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according
to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
035:011 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem
for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army
of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
035:012 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
035:013 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you
not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh.
035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded
his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day
they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment:
but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking;
and you have not listened to me.
035:015 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you
now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings,
and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell
in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:
but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father which he commanded them,
but this people has not listened to me;
035:017 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God
of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them;
because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard;
and I have called to them, but they have not answered.
035:018 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the
commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts,
and done according to all that he commanded you;
035:019 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the
son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.
036:001 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
036:002 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words
that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah,
and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you,
from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil
which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every
man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin.
036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh,
which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
036:005 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go
into the house of Yahweh:
036:006 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written
from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people
in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read
them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh,
and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger
and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people.
036:008 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah
the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words
of Yahweh in Yahweh's house.
036:009 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people
in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities
of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house
of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate
of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people.
036:011 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan,
had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,
036:012 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber:
and behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit],
Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah,
and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
036:013 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying,
Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears
of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took
the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
036:015 They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
So Baruch read it in their ears.
036:016 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned
in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely
tell the king of all these words.
036:017 They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write
all these words at his mouth?
036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
036:019 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah;
and let no man know where you are.
036:020 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid
up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe;
and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it
out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it
in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes
who stood beside the king.
036:022 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month:
and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.
036:023 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves,
that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into
the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was
consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
036:024 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king,
nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
036:025 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll;
but he would not hear them.
036:026 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son
of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch
the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
036:027 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king
had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote
at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
036:028 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former
words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king
of Judah has burned.
036:029 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say,
Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying,
Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon
shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause
to cease from there man and animal?
036:030 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king
of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David;
and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat,
and in the night to the frost.
036:031 I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity;
and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced
against them, but they didn't listen.
036:032 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch
the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth
of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king
of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides
to them many like words.
037:001 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
made king in the land of Judah.
037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by
the prophet Jeremiah.
037:003 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah
the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.
037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they
had not put him into prison.
037:005 Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the
Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them,
they broke up from Jerusalem.
037:006 Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
037:007 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell
the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me:
Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you,
shall return to Egypt into their own land.
037:008 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city;
and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
037:009 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans
shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
037:010 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans
who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men
among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent,
and burn this city with fire.
037:011 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken
up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
037:012 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst
of the people.
037:013 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah,
the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet,
saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.
037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to
the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid
hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
037:015 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him,
and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe;
for they had made that the prison.
037:016 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells,
and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him:
and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said,
Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is.
He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the
king of Babylon.
037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned
against you, or against your servants, or against this people,
that you have put me in prison?
037:019 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king
of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
037:020 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication
be presented before you, that you not cause me to return
to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah
into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf
of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread
in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court
of the guard.
038:001 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah,
heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
038:002 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his
life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.
038:003 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand
of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
038:004 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you,
be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war
who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people,
in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek
the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
038:005 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand;
for the king is not he who can do anything against you.
038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard:
and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there
was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the
king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon
(the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke
to the king, saying,
038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into
the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is,
because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,
Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah
the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.
038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
of the king under the treasury, and took there rags
and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into
the dungeon to Jeremiah.
038:012 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags
and worn-out garments under your armholes under the cords.
Jeremiah did so.
038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up
out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court
of the guard.
038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet
to him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh:
and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing;
hide nothing from me.
038:015 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you,
will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel,
you will not listen to me.
038:016 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying,
As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you
to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men
who seek your life.
038:017 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king
of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this
city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live,
and your house.
038:018 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
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.
038:019 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews
who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me
into their hand, and they mock me.
038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you,
the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you:
so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.
038:021 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh
has shown me:
038:022 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house
shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on,
and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk
in the mire, they are turned away back.
038:023 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to
the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand,
but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon:
and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
038:024 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words,
and you shall not die.
038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they
come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said
to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you
to death; also what the king said to you:
038:026 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king,
that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house,
to die there.
038:027 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him;
and he told them according to all these words that the king
had commanded. So they left off speaking with him;
for the matter was not perceived.
038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day
that Jerusalem was taken.
039:001 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem,
and besieged it;
039:002 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,
the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
039:003 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in,
and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal Sharezer,
Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag,
with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
039:004 It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all
the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth
out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden,
through the gate between the two walls; and he went out
toward the Arabah.
039:005 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him,
they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah
in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
039:006 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all
the nobles of Judah.
039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters,
to carry him to Babylon.
039:008 The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people,
with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city,
the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue
of the people who remained.
039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor
of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
039:011 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm;
but do to him even as he shall tell you.
039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent,
and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all
the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
039:014 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard,
and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home:
so he lived among the people.
039:015 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up
in the court of the guard, saying,
039:016 Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring
my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they
shall be accomplished before you in that day.
039:017 But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall
not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
039:018 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword,
but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put
your trust in me, says Yahweh.
040:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah,
when he had taken him being bound in chains among all
the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away
captive to Babylon.
040:002 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him,
Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;
040:003 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke:
because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed
his voice, therefore this thing is come on you.
040:004 Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are
on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me
into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it
seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold,
all the land is before you; where it seems good and right
to you to go, there go.
040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he],
to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king
of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah,
and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems
right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him
food and a present, and let him go.
040:006 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah,
and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields,
even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon
had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land,
and had committed to him men, and women, and children,
and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried
away captive to Babylon;
040:008 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah,
and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai
the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite,
they and their men.
040:009 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and
to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it
shall be well with you.
040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before
the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather you wine
and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels,
and dwell in your cities that you have taken.
040:011 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children
of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries,
heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah,
and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
the son of Shaphan;
040:012 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they
were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah,
to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
040:014 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children
of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them.
040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in
Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it:
why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered
to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son
of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak
falsely of Ishmael.
041:001 Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one
of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him,
came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they
ate bread together in Mizpah.
041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who
were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son
of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king
of Babylon had made governor over the land.
041:003 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, [to wit],
with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there,
the men of war.
041:004 It happened the second day after he had killed Gedaliah,
and no man knew it,
041:005 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,
even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn,
and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense
in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
041:006 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them,
weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them,
he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
041:007 It was so, when they came into the midst of the city,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them]
into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
041:008 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us;
for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley,