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14 But Jeremiah said, “(A)A lie! I am not [a]going over to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. 15 Then the officials were (B)angry at Jeremiah and struck him, and they (C)put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe because they had made that house into the prison. 16 For Jeremiah had come into the [b](D)pit, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:14 Lit falling
  2. Jeremiah 37:16 Lit house of the pit