Jeremiah 38:26-28

Expanded Bible

²⁶ If they ask you, tell them, ‘I was ·begging [^Lmaking my pleas for help/supplications/falling before] the king not to ·send [return] me back to Jonathan’s house to die.’”

²⁷ All the officers did come to question Jeremiah. So he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. Then the officers said no more to Jeremiah, because no one had heard what Jeremiah and the king had discussed.

²⁸ So Jeremiah stayed under guard in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.