And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am banned from going to the house of the Lord,
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.
And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.
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