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blacke More sayde vnto Ieremiah, Put now these the King sayd vnto thee, 26 Then shalt thou say
olde rotten ragges and worne, vnder thine arme vnto them, I humbly besought the King that he
holes, betweene the coards. And Ieremiah did would not cause me to returne to Iehonathans
so. 13 So they drewe vp Ieremiah with coards and house, to die there. 27 Then came all the princes
tooke him vp out of the dungeon, and Ieremiah vnto Ieremiah and asked him. And he tolde them
remained in the court of the prison. 14 Then according to all these wordes that the King had
Zedekiah the King sent, and tooke Ieremiah the commanded: so they left off speaking with him,
Prophet vnto him, into the thirde entrie that is for the matter was not perceiued. 28 So Ieremiah
in the House of the Lord, and the King sayd vnto abode still in the court of the prison, vntill the
Ieremiah, I wil aske thee a thing: hide nothing day that Ierusalem was taken: and he was there,
from me. 15 Then Ieremiah sayd to Zedekiah, If I when Ierusalem was taken.
declare it vnto thee, wilt not thou slay me? and if
I giue thee counsell, thou wilt not heare me. 16 So 39
the King sware secretly vnto Ieremiah, saying, 1 In the ninth yeere of Zedekiah King of Iudah
As the Lord liueth that made vs these soules, I in the tenth moneth, came Nebuchad-nezzar
will not slay thee, nor giue thee into the hands King of Babel and all his hoste against Ierusalem,
of those men that seeke thy life. 17 Then sayd and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleuenth
Ieremiah vnto Zedekiah, Thus sayth the Lord God yeere of Zedekiah in the fourth moneth, the
of hostes, the God of Israel, If thou wilt goe foorth ninth day of the moneth, the citie was broken vp.
vnto the King of Babels princes, then thy soule 3 And all the princes of the King of Babel came
shall liue, and this citie shall not be burnt vp with in, and sate in the middle gate, euen Neregal,
fire, and thou shalt liue, and thine house. 18 But Sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,
if thou wilt not go forth to the King of Babels Neregal, Sharezer, Rab-mag with all the residue
princes, then shall this citie be giuen into the of the princes of the King of Babel. 4 And when
hand of ye Caldeans, and they shall burne it with Zedekiah the King of Iudah saw them, and all the
fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hands. men of warre, then they fled, and went out of the
19 And Zedekiah the King sayde vnto Ieremiah, I citie by night, through the Kings garden, and by
am carefull for the Iewes that are fled vnto the the gate betweene the two walles, and he went
Caldeans, least they deliuer mee into their hands, toward the wildernes. 5 But the Caldeans hoste
and they mocke me. 20 But Ieremiah sayd, They pursued after them, and ouertooke Zedekiah in
shall not deliuer thee: hearken vnto the voyce the desart of Iericho: and when they had taken
of the Lord, I beseech thee, which I speake vnto him, they brought him to Nebuchad-nezzar King
thee: so shall it be well vnto thee, and thy soule of Babel vnto Riblah in the land of Hamath, where
shall liue. 21 But if thou wilt refuse to go forth, he gaue iudgement vpon him. 6 Then the King
this is the worde that the Lord hath shewed me. of Babel slewe the sonnes of Zedekiah in Riblah
22 And beholde, all the women that are left in the before his eyes: also the King of Babel slewe
King of Iudahs house, shalbe brought forth to the all the nobles of Iudah. 7 Moreouer he put out
King of Babels princes: and those women shall Zedekiahs eyes, and bound him in chaines, to
say, Thy friends haue perswaded thee, and haue cary him to Babel. And the Caldeans burnt the
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preuailed against thee: thy feete are fastened in Kings house, and the houses of the people with
the myre, and they are turned backe. 23 So they fire, and brake downe the walles of Ierusalem.
shall bring out all thy wiues, and thy children to 9 Then Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde caried
the Caldeans, and thou shalt not escape out of away captiue into Babel the remnant of the peo-
their hands, but shalt be taken by the hand of the ple, that remained in the citie, and those that
King of Babel: and this citie shalt thou cause to were fled and fallen vnto him, with the rest of the
people that remained.
But Nebuzar-adan the
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be burnt with fire. 24 Then said Zedekiah vnto chiefe steward left the poore that had nothing
Ieremiah, Let no man know of these words, and
thou shalt not die. 25 But if ye princes vnderstand in the land of Iudah, and gaue them vineyards
that I haue talked with thee, and they come vnto and fieldes at the same time. 11 Nowe Nebuchad-
thee, and say vnto thee, Declare vnto vs nowe, nezzar King of Babel gaue charge concerning
what thou hast sayde vnto the King, hide it not Ieremiah vnto Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde,
saying,
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Take him, and looke well to him, and
from vs, and we will not slay thee: also what doe him no harme, but doe vnto him euen as