KJV King James Version
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
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Jeremiah 37:16
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
WEB World English Bible
When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
ASV American Standard Version
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 37
13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
14 Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
19 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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כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforבָ֧אH935 · boto come (in): comeיִרְמְיָ֛הוּH3414 · yir.me.yahJeremiahאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)בֵּ֥יתH1004 · betplaceהַבּ֖וֹרH953 · borpitוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַֽחֲנֻ֑יוֹתH2588 · cha.nutvaultוַיֵּֽשֶׁב־H3427 · ya.shavto dwellשָׁ֥םH8033 · shamthereיִרְמְיָ֖הוּH3414 · yir.me.yahJeremiahיָמִ֥יםH3117 · yomdayרַבִּֽים׃ פH7227 · ravmany
Cross-references
Jeremiah 38:6Then 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. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.Jeremiah 38:10-13Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.Genesis 40:15For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.Lamentations 3:55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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