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Bible Reading for August 16
Jeremiah 37
[1] And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
[2] But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken
unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah. [3] And
Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD
our God for us.
[4] Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put
him into prison.
[5] Then Pharoah's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans
that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
[6] Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying, [7] Thus
saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah,
that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come
forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. [8] And the
Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn
it with fire.
[9] Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall
surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. [10] For though ye had
smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there
remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his
tent, and burn this city with fire. [11] And it came to pass, that when the
army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
[12] Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of
Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. [13] And when
he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name
was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah
the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. [14] Then said
Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not
to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
[15] Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put
him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the
prison.
[16] When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and
Jeremiah had remained there many days; [17] Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there
any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt
be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
[18] Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against
thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in
prison?
[19] Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king
of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? [20] Therefore
hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee,
be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of
Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. [21] Then Zedekiah the king commanded
that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they
should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all
the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the
prison.
Jeremiah 38
[1] Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and
Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words
that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, [2] Thus saith the LORD,
He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by
the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he
shall have his life for a prey, and shall live. [3] Thus saith the LORD, This
city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which
shall take it. [4] Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee,
let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of
war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking
such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but
the hurt.
[5] Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is
not he that can do any thing against you. [6] Then took they Jeremiah, and
cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the
court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon
there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
[7] Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the
king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then
sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
[8] Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king,
saying,
[9] 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 like to
die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the
city.
[10] Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from
hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the
dungeon, before he die.
[11] So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king
under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and
let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. [12] And Ebed-melech the
Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags
under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
[13] So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon:
and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. [14] Then Zedekiah the king
sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in
the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
thing; hide nothing from me. [15] Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I
declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee
counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
[16] So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD
liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I
give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life. [17] Then said
Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes,
then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and
thou shalt live, and thine house: [18] But if thou wilt 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 thou shalt not escape out of
their hand. [19] And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand,
and they mock me.
[20] But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the
voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and
thy soul shall live.
[21] But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath
shewed me:
[22] And, behold, all the women that 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, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet
are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back. [23] So they shall bring
out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape
out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and
thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
[24] Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and
thou shalt not die.
[25] But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto
thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the
king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the
king said unto thee:
[26] Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the
king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
[27] Then came all the princes unto 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. [28] So Jeremiah abode in
the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was
there when Jerusalem was taken.
Jeremiah 39
[1] In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they
beseiged it.
[2] And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day
of the month, the city was broken up. [3] And all the princes of the king of
Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer,
Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all the
residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
[4] And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and
all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night,
by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he
went out the way of the plain.
[5] But the Chaldeans' army 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, where he gave
judgment upon him.
[6] Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his
eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. [7] Moreover he
put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
[8] And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people,
with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. [9] Then Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the
people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him,
with the rest of the people that remained. [10] But Nebuzar-adan the captain
of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of
Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
[11] Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to
Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, [12] Take him, and look well to
him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
[13] So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban,
Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;
[14] Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and
committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he
should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. [15] Now the word of the
LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison,
saying,
[16] Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for
evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
[17] But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not
be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid. [18] For I will
surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall
be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
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