Yer 37:1 Zedekia bin Yosia menjadi raja menggantikan Konya bin Yoyakim; Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, telah mengangkat dia menjadi raja atas negeri Yehuda.
Yer 37:2 Tetapi baik ia, baik pegawai-pegawainya maupun rakyat negeri itu, tidak mendengarkan firman yang disampaikan TUHAN dengan perantaraan nabi Yeremia.
Yer 37:3 Pada suatu kali raja Zedekia menyuruh Yukhal bin Selemya dan imam Zefanya bin Maaseya kepada Yeremia untuk meminta: "Berdoalah hendaknya untuk kami kepada TUHAN, Allah kita!"
Yer 37:4 Adapun pada waktu itu Yeremia masih bebas pergi datang di tengah-tengah rakyat; ia belum dimasukkan orang ke dalam penjara.
Yer 37:5 Adapun tentara Firaun telah berangkat keluar dari Mesir; mendengar kabar itu maka orang-orang Kasdim yang mengepung Yerusalem angkat kaki dari Yerusalem.
Yer 37:6 Lalu datanglah firman TUHAN kepada nabi Yeremia, bunyinya:
Yer 37:7 "Beginilah firman TUHAN, Allah Israel. Kepada raja Yehuda, yang menyuruh kamu kepada-Ku untuk meminta petunjuk, harus kamu katakan begini: Lihat, tentara Firaun yang telah berangkat keluar untuk membantu kamu akan kembali ke negerinya, ke Mesir.
Yer 37:8 Tetapi orang-orang Kasdim akan datang kembali memerangi kota ini, merebutnya dan menghanguskannya dengan api.
Yer 37:9 Beginilah firman TUHAN: Janganlah kamu membohongi dirimu sendiri dengan mengatakan: Orang-orang Kasdim itu telah pergi untuk selamanya dari pada kita! Padahal mereka tidak pergi untuk selamanya!
Yer 37:10 Dan seandainya kamu memukul kalah segenap tentara orang Kasdim yang telah memerangi kamu itu, sehingga di antara mereka hanya tinggal orang-orang yang luka parah, masing-masing di kemahnya mereka akan bangun dan menghanguskan kota ini dengan api."
Yeremia dipenjarakan
Yer 37:11 Ketika tentara orang Kasdim itu telah angkat kaki dari Yerusalem oleh karena takut kepada tentara Firaun,
Yer 37:12 maka keluarlah Yeremia dari Yerusalem untuk pergi ke daerah Benyamin dengan maksud mengurus di sana pembagian warisan di antara kaum keluarga.
Yer 37:13 Tetapi ketika ia sampai ke pintu gerbang Benyamin, maka di sana ada seorang kepala jaga yang bernama Yeria bin Selemya bin Hananya; ia menangkap nabi Yeremia sambil berteriak: "Engkau mau menyeberang kepada orang Kasdim!"
Yer 37:14 Dan sekalipun Yeremia menjawab: "Itu bohong, aku tidak hendak menyeberang kepada orang Kasdim!", tetapi Yeria tidak mendengarkan, lalu ia menangkap Yeremia dan membawanya menghadap para pemuka.
Yer 37:15 Para pemuka ini menjadi marah kepada Yeremia; mereka memukul dia dan memasukkannya ke dalam rumah tahanan, rumah panitera Yonatan itu; adapun rumah itu telah dibuat mereka menjadi penjara.
Yer 37:16 Demikianlah halnya Yeremia masuk ke dalam ruang cadangan air di bawah tanah itu. Dan lama Yeremia tinggal di sana.
Zedekia memindahkan tempat Yeremia dikurung
Yer 37:17 Pada suatu kali raja Zedekia menyuruh orang mengambil dia. Lalu dengan diam-diam bertanyalah raja di istananya kepadanya: "Adakah datang firman dari TUHAN?" Jawab Yeremia: "Ada!" Lagi katanya: "Bunyinya: Engkau akan diserahkan ke dalam tangan raja Babel!"
Yer 37:18 Kemudian berkatalah Yeremia kepada raja Zedekia: "Apakah dosa yang kuperbuat kepadamu, kepada pegawai-pegawaimu dan kepada bangsa ini, sehingga kamu memasukkan aku ke dalam penjara?
Yer 37:19 Di manakah gerangan para nabimu yang telah bernubuat kepadamu, bahwa raja Babel tidak akan datang menyerang kamu dan negeri ini?
Yer 37:20 Sekarang, dengarkanlah, hai tuanku raja! Biarlah permohonanku sampai di hadapanmu: janganlah kembalikan aku ke rumah panitera Yonatan, nanti aku mati di sana."
Yer 37:21 Raja Zedekia memberi perintah, lalu orang menahan Yeremia di pelataran penjagaan dan memberikan setiap hari kepadanya sepotong roti dari jalan tukang roti, sampai pada waktu segala roti habis di kota itu. Demikianlah Yeremia tinggal di pelataran penjagaan itu.
Jer 37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Jer 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
Jer 37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
Jer 37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Jer 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
Jer 37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying,
Jer 37:7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
Jer 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Jer 37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
Jer 37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
Jer 37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
Jer 37:12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
Jer 37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Jer 37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jer 37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jer 37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jer 37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jer 37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Jer 37:19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
Jer 37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jer 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
