Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Jeremiah 37:19
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Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
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Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
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Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land’?
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Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
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Jeremiah 37
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?
19 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.
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