“Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is [a]east of the Jordan.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:3 Lit before

for (A)when Jezebel [a]destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and (B)provided them with bread and water.)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:4 Lit cut off

10 (A)As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent to search for you; and when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.

Read full chapter

20 Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from (A)Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah. 21 When King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and all the officials heard his words, then the (B)king sought to put him to death; but Uriah heard it, and he was afraid and (C)fled and went to Egypt. 22 Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: (D)Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him went into Egypt. 23 And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who (E)slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the [a]burial place of the [b]common people.

24 But the hand of (F)Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was (G)not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 26:23 Lit graves
  2. Jeremiah 26:23 Lit sons of the people

26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to (A)seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the (B)Lord hid them.

Read full chapter