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Jeremiah 38:24

in Jeremiah 38

Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you will die.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

KJV

Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

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This verse in Jeremiah 38

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen

on Jeremiah 38:19-28

Zedekiah's real fear surfaces at last, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me, terror of his own defectors outweighing terror of Babylon or of God, and Jeremiah's answer, they shall not deliver thee, cannot move him past it. The vision of the king's own women taunting him, thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back, echoes Jeremiah's own dungeon in mire back at the king who put him there, a detail the bench reads as deliberate. Zedekiah extracts a promise of silence about the conversation, and Jeremiah keeps it exactly when the princes come asking, so that he remains in the court of the prison until the day Jerusalem falls, obedient to the letter of a secrecy the king demanded but not to the counsel the king refused.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): Let no man know of these words. he does not at all incline to take God's counsel, nor so much as promise to consider of it; for so obstinate has he been to the calls of God, and so wilful in the ways of sin, that though he has good counsel given him he seems to be given up to walk in his own counsels.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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.

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Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah,....

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּZedekiah

    tzidkiyahuH6667 →63 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֗הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • אִ֛ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • יֵדַ֥עhe know

    yeda'H3045 →945 times

  • בַּדְּבָֽרִים־in the words

    badevarim-H1697 →1440 times

  • הָאֵ֖לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תָמֽוּת׃you will die

    tamutH4191 →839 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 38 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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