Jeremiah 37:14-16

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¹⁴ But Jeremiah said to Irijah, “·That’s not true [False; Lies]! I am not ·leaving to join the Babylonians [deserting/defecting/^Lfalling to the Chaldeans].” Irijah refused to listen to Jeremiah, so he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officers of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Those ·rulers [^Lofficers] were very angry with Jeremiah and ·beat [^Lstruck] him. Then they put him in ·jail [^Lhouse of confinement] in the house of Jonathan the ·royal secretary [scribe], which had been made into a prison [^Lhouse of confinement]. ¹⁶ So those people put Jeremiah into a cell in a ·dungeon [^Lhouse of the pit/cistern], and Jeremiah was there for ·a long time [^Lmany days].