Jeremiah 37:16 “So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long…”

Jeremiah 37:16

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

World English Bible

When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

American Standard Version

When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Geneva Bible 1599

When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the prisons, and had remained there a long time,

Darby Translation

When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

Young's Literal Translation

When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,

Bible in Basic English

So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.

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Cross references

“A. M. 3415. B.C. 589. into the dungeon”

Jeremiah 38:6 Jeremiah 38:10–13 Genesis 40:15 Lamentations 3:53 Lamentations 3:55

Jeremiah 38:6 · BSB

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremia…

Jeremiah 38:10–13 · BSB

So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Genesis 40:15 · BSB

For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

Lamentations 3:53 · BSB

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

Lamentations 3:55 · BSB

I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

17Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

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