- 西底家王就私下向耶利米说,我指着那造我们生命之永生的耶和华起誓,我必不杀你,也不将你交在寻索你命的人手中。
- 耶利米对西底家说,耶和华万军之神,以色列的神如此说,你若出去归降巴比伦王的首领,你的命就必存活,这城也不致被火焚烧,你和你的全家都必存活。
- 你若不出去归降巴比伦王的首领,这城必交在迦勒底人手中。他们必用火焚烧,你也不得脱离他们的手。
- 西底家王对耶利米说,我怕那些投降迦勒底人的犹大人,恐怕迦勒底人将我交在他们手中,他们戏弄我。
- 耶利米说,迦勒底人必不将你交出。求你听从我对你所说耶和华的话,这样你必得好处,你的命也必存活。
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- So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
- Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
- But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
- And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
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