Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 38 connects to 10 cross-references. Officials throw Jeremiah into a cistern with mud where he sinks. The Ethiopian official Ebed-melech appeals to the king who permits his rescue. Zedekiah secretly asks Jeremiah again for a word: surrender to Babylon and live, or resist and die …
Other Translations
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
`My lord, O king, these men have done evil <FI>in<Fi> all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.'
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.
Cross References
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the …
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we …
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went …
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that …
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so …
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the …
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should …