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26 then you are to say to them, ‘I was presenting my request to the king that I not be taken back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

27 When all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, he replied to them exactly as the king had ordered him.[a] So they stopped speaking with him because the conversation had not been overheard. 28 Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

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  1. Jeremiah 38:27 Lit. according to all these words that the king ordered him