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Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah

Jeremiah 37:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.
KJV
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
WEB
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, for they had not put him into prison.
ASV
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.
LSV
And Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people (and they have not put him in the prison-house),
YLT
And Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people, (and they have not put him in the prison-house),
DBY
And Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.
DRC
Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people: for they had not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these tidings, departed from Jerusalem.
GNV
(Now Ieremiah went in and out among the people: for they had not put him into the prison.
JPS
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.
LXXE44:4
Now Jeremias came and went through the midst of the city: for they had not put him into the house of the prison.

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  • Written (Ketiv): הַכְּלִיא׃ (“the imprisonment”). Read aloud (Qere): הַכְּלֽוּא׃ (“the imprisonment”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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  • Leningrad Codex reads הַכְּלֽיּא׃; read aloud (Qere) reads הַכְּלֽוּא׃ (“the imprisonment”).

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְיִרְמְיָ֕הוּ בָּ֥א וְיֹצֵ֖א בְּת֣וֹךְ הָעָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־נָתְנ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ בֵּ֥ית הכליא׃Read aloud as (qere): הַכְּלֽוּא
LXX-Br44:4
Καὶ Ἱερεμίας ἦλθε καὶ διῆλθε διὰ μέσου τῆς πόλεως, καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκαν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τῆς φυλακῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
  • Jeremiah 32:2–3At 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. For Zedekiah king of Judah had…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 37:4a in some Bibles
  • 37:4-5 in most Bibles
  • 37:4 in most Bibles

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