Quotes about Prophet
But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
— Jeremiah 37:2
Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
— Jeremiah 37:3
Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.
— Jeremiah 37:4
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:
— Jeremiah 37:6
The 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.
— Jeremiah 37:15
Later, 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.”
— Jeremiah 37:17
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
— Jeremiah 37:21
Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:
— Jeremiah 38:1
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
— Jeremiah 38:9
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.”
— Jeremiah 38:10
Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”
— Jeremiah 38:14
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
— Jeremiah 38:21