Jeremiah 38:26 meaning and explanation
then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
Jeremiah 38:26, Berean Standard Bible
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King Zedekiah has just finished a secret conversation with Jeremiah, and he knows the officials who threw the prophet into the cistern will demand to know what was said. So the king instructs Jeremiah to give them a true but partial answer: he was pleading not to be sent back to the house of Jonathan, where he had been imprisoned and would likely die.
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