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Jeremiah 37:16

What does Jeremiah 37:16 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 37:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him secretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said. There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.15And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

v.16This passage

v.17then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 38:10

    Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

  • Lamentations 3:55

    I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

  • Jeremiah 38:6

    Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

  • Lamentations 3:53

    They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

  • Genesis 40:15

    for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

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