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Jeremiah 37:21

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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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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25 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיְצַוֶּ֞הvay.tza.Vehand he commandedH6680 →
הַמֶּ֣לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428 →
צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּtzid.ki.Ya.huZedekiahH6667 →
וַיַּפְקִ֣דוּvai.yaf.Ki.duand they depositedH6485 →
אֶֽת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
יִרְמְיָהוּ֮yir.me.ya.HuJeremiahH3414 →
בַּחֲצַ֣רba.cha.Tzarin [the] courtyard ofH2691 →
הַמַּטָּרָה֒ha.ma.ta.Rahthe guardH4307 →
וְנָתֹן֩ve.na.Tonand they gaveH5414 →
ל֨וֹloto <the> him
כִכַּר־khi.kar-a round loaf ofH3603 →
לֶ֤חֶםLe.chembreadH3899 →
לַיּוֹם֙lai.yOmto the dayH3117 →
מִח֣וּץmi.Chutzfrom [the] street ofH2351 →
הָאֹפִ֔יםha.'o.Fimthe bakersH644 →
עַד־'ad-untilH5704 →
תֹּ֥םtomwas finishedH8552 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
הַלֶּ֖חֶםha.Le.chemthe breadH3899 →
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הָעִ֑ירha.'Irthe cityH5892 →
וַיֵּ֣שֶׁבvai.Ye.shevand he remainedH3427 →
יִרְמְיָ֔הוּyir.me.Ya.huJeremiahH3414 →
בַּחֲצַ֖רba.cha.Tzarin [the] courtyard ofH2691 →
הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃ha.ma.ta.Rahthe guardH4307 →

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Jeremiah 38:28And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.Jeremiah 38:13and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.1 Kings 17:6The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.Jeremiah 32:2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”Proverbs 30:8Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.Jeremiah 33:1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.2 Kings 25:3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.Isaiah 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.Nehemiah 3:25and Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of ParoshJob 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.Psalms 33:18–19Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotionExodus 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Lamentations 2:19–20Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.Jeremiah 32:8Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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