Jeremiah 38:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ you should say to them, ‘I was begging the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

²⁷ Then all the officials approached Jeremiah to question him. And he responded exactly as the king had instructed him. So they stopped interrogating him because the conversation between the king and Jeremiah^[a] hadn’t been overheard. ²⁸ Jeremiah remained in the prison quarters until Jerusalem was captured.