Jeremiah 38:26-28

International Children’s Bible

²⁶ If they ask you, tell them this: ‘I was begging the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house to die.’”

²⁷ 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. This was because no one had heard what Jeremiah and the king had discussed.

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