1 Et regnavit rex Sedecias filius Josiæ pro Jechonia filio Joakim, quem constituit regem Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis in terra Juda: 2 et non obedivit ipse, et servi ejus, et populus terræ, verbis Domini, quæ locutus est in manu Jeremiæ prophetæ. 3 Et misit rex Sedecias Juchal filium Selemiæ, et Sophoniam filium Maasiæ, sacerdotem, ad Jeremiam prophetam, dicens: Ora pro nobis Dominum Deum nostrum. 4 Jeremias autem libere ambulabat in medio populi: non enim miserant eum in custodiam carceris. Igitur exercitus Pharaonis egressus est de Ægypto, et audientes Chaldæi qui obsidebant Jerusalem, hujuscemodi nuntium, recesserunt ab Jerusalem. 5 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jeremiam prophetam, dicens: 6 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël: Sic dicetis regi Juda, qui misit vos ad me interrogandum: Ecce exercitus Pharaonis, qui egressus est vobis in auxilium, revertetur in terram suam in Ægyptum: 7 et redient Chaldæi, et bellabunt contra civitatem hanc, et capient eam, et succendent eam igni. 8 Hæc dicit Dominus: Nolite decipere animas vestras, dicentes: Euntes abibunt, et recedent a nobis Chaldæi: quia non abibunt. 9 Sed etsi percusseritis omnem exercitum Chaldæorum qui præliantur adversum vos, et derelicti fuerint ex eis aliqui vulnerati, singuli de tentorio suo consurgent, et incendent civitatem hanc igni. 10 Ergo cum recessisset exercitus Chaldæorum ab Jerusalem, propter exercitum Pharaonis, 11 egressus est Jeremias de Jerusalem ut iret in terram Benjamin, et divideret ibi possessionem in conspectu civium. 12 Cumque pervenisset ad portam Benjamin, erat ibi custos portæ per vices, nomine Jerias filius Selemiæ filii Hananiæ: et apprehendit Jeremiam prophetam, dicens: Ad Chaldæos profugis. 13 Et respondit Jeremias: Falsum est: non fugio ad Chaldæos. Et non audivit eum, sed comprehendit Jerias Jeremiam, et adduxit eum ad principes: 14 quam ob rem irati principes contra Jeremiam, cæsum eum miserunt in carcerem qui erat in domo Jonathan scribæ: ipse enim præpositus erat super carcerem. 15 Itaque ingressus est Jeremias in domum laci et in ergastulum: et sedit ibi Jeremias diebus multis. 16 Mittens autem Sedecias rex, tulit eum: et interrogavit eum in domo sua abscondite, et dixit: Putasne est sermo a Domino? Et dixit Jeremias: Est: et ait: In manus regis Babylonis traderis. 17 Et dixit Jeremias ad regem Sedeciam: Quid peccavi tibi, et servis tuis, et populo tuo, quia misisti me in domum carceris? 18 ubi sunt prophetæ vestri, qui prophetabant vobis, et dicebant: Non veniet rex Babylonis super vos, et super terram hanc? 19 Nunc ergo audi, obsecro, domine mi rex: valeat deprecatio mea in conspectu tuo, et ne me remittas in domum Jonathan scribæ, ne moriar ibi. 20 Præcepit ergo rex Sedecias ut traderetur Jeremias in vestibulo carceris, et daretur ei torta panis quotidie, excepto pulmento, donec consumerentur omnes panes de civitate: et mansit Jeremias in vestibulo carceris.
Jeremiah 37 Clementine Vulgate
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People & places in this chapter
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People
Hananiah
Named as the father of Shelemiah, in the ancestry of Irijah.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 37:13
Irijah
Captain of the guard at the Gate of Benjamin who seized Jeremiah and accused him of deserting to the Chaldeans.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 37:13
Jehucal
Son of Shelemiah whom King Zedekiah sent to Jeremiah to ask for prayer, and who later heard Jeremiah's words and joined in seeking his death.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 37:3; Jeremiah 38:1
Jonathan
A scribe in whose house Jeremiah was beaten and jailed, the house having been made into a prison.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 37:15; Jeremiah 37:20
Maaseiah
Named as the father of Zephaniah the priest.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 37:3
Shelemiah
Son of Hananiah and father of Irijah, the captain of the guard.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 37:13
Shelemiah
Named as the father of Jehucal, an envoy of Zedekiah.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 37:3; Jeremiah 38:1
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 22:24; 2 Kings 24:17; 2 Kings 24:12; Ezekiel 17:12–21; Jeremiah 52:31
- 2 Proverbs 29:12; 2 Kings 24:19–20; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 36:12–16; Exodus 4:13
- 3 Jeremiah 21:1–2; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 52:24; Jeremiah 42:2–4; Jeremiah 2:27
- 4 Jeremiah 37:15; Jeremiah 32:2–3
- 5 Ezekiel 17:15; Jeremiah 34:21; 2 Kings 24:7; Jeremiah 37:11; Jeremiah 37:7
- 7 Lamentations 4:17; 2 Kings 22:18; Isaiah 31:1–3; Ezekiel 17:17; Jeremiah 37:3
- 8 Jeremiah 39:2–8; Jeremiah 38:23; Jeremiah 34:21–22; Jeremiah 32:29
- 9 Obadiah 3; Galatians 6:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; James 1:22; Matthew 24:4–5
- 10 Jeremiah 50:45; Joel 2:11; Leviticus 26:36–38; Isaiah 30:17; Isaiah 13:15
- 11 Jeremiah 37:5
- 12 Jeremiah 1:1; Matthew 10:23; 1 Chronicles 6:60; Joshua 21:17–18; Nehemiah 6:11
- 13 Zechariah 14:10; Jeremiah 38:7; Acts 24:13; Luke 23:2; Jeremiah 20:10
- 14 Psalm 27:12; Matthew 5:11–12; Jeremiah 40:4–6; Psalm 52:1–2; Psalm 35:11
- 15 Jeremiah 38:26; Matthew 21:35; 2 Chronicles 16:10; Genesis 39:20; Acts 5:18
- 16 Jeremiah 38:6; Jeremiah 38:10–13; Lamentations 3:53; Genesis 40:15; Lamentations 3:55
- 17 Jeremiah 21:7; 1 Kings 22:16; Jeremiah 21:1–2; Ezekiel 12:12–13; Jeremiah 24:8
- 18 John 10:32; Acts 25:8; Acts 25:25; Acts 25:11; Daniel 6:22
- 19 Jeremiah 28:10–17; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 6:14; 2 Kings 3:13; Jeremiah 8:11
- 20 Jeremiah 36:7; Jeremiah 26:15; Jeremiah 38:6–9; Acts 25:10–11; Acts 28:18–19
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