37Zedekiah^p son of Josiah was made king^q of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin^a^r son of Jehoiakim. ²Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention^s to the words the Lord had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

³King Zedekiah, however, sent^t Jehukal^u son of Shelemiah with the priest Zephaniah^v son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: “Please pray^w to the Lord our God for us.”

⁴Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.^x ⁵Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt,^y and when the Babylonians^b who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew^z from Jerusalem.^a

⁶Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet: ⁷“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire^b of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched^c out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.^d ⁸Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture^e it and burn^f it down.’

⁹“This is what the Lord says: Do not deceive^g yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not!

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Footnotes

aHebrew Koniah, a variant of Jehoiachin
bOr Chaldeans; also in verses 8, 9, 13 and 14

Cross references

pSee 2 Ki 24:17
q 1 Sa 11:1; Eze 17:13
rSee 2 Ki 24:8, 12; Jer 22:24
sSee 2 Ki 24:19
tver 17; Jer 38:14
u Jer 38:1
vSee 2 Ki 25:18; Jer 29:25; 52:24
wSee Ex 8:28; See Nu 21:7; 1 Sa 12:19; 1 Ki 13:6; 2 Ki 19:4; Jer 42:2
xver 15; Jer 32:2
ySee Ge 15:18; Isa 31:1; Eze 17:15
z Jer 34:21
aSee Isa 30:5; Jer 34:11
bSee Ge 25:22; See 2 Ki 22:18
cver 5
dSee 2 Ki 18:21; See Jer 2:36; La 1:7; 4:17
e Jer 38:3
f Jer 21:10; 38:18; 39:8
g Jer 29:8; See Mk 13:5