Jeremiah 38:13 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 38:13

and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

At the intercession of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, by special order from the king, he is taken up out of the dungeon and confined only to the court of the prison,

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּמְשְׁכ֤וּ	vai.yim.she.Khu	and they drew out	H4900 →
אֶֽת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙	yir.me.Ya.hu	Jeremiah	H3414 →
בַּֽחֲבָלִ֔ים	ba.cha.va.Lim	with ropes	H2256 →
וַיַּעֲל֥וּ	vai.ya.'a.Lu	and they brought up	H5927 →
אֹת֖וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַבּ֑וֹר	ha.Bor	the cistern	H953 →
וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב	vai.Ye.shev	and he remained	H3427 →
יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ	yir.me.Ya.hu	Jeremiah	H3414 →
בַּחֲצַ֖ר	ba.cha.Tzar	in [the] courtyard of	H2691 →
הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃ ס	ha.ma.ta.Rah	the guard	H4307 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 23:35
he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
leads to
- Acts 23:30
  When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.
- Acts 25:16
  I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.
Through
Acts 28:16
When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
leads to
- Acts 27:3
  The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration, allowing him to visit his friends and receive their care.
- Acts 24:23
  He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.
Through
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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 38:28
  And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
- Jeremiah 52:6
  By 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 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…
- Jeremiah 32:2
  At 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…