Jeremiah 37:21

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Jeremiah 37:19–21 · Berean Standard Bible

19 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?

20 But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”

21 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.

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Jeremiah 32:2

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.

Jeremiah 32:8

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Jeremiah 38:13

and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:28

And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

1 Kings 17:4

And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

1 Kings 17:5

So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

1 Kings 17:6

The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

Job 5:20

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Psalms 33:18

Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

Psalms 33:19

to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Psalms 34:9

Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.

Psalms 34:10

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Psalms 37:3

Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Psalms 37:19

In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

Proverbs 16:7

When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

Isaiah 33:16

he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Jeremiah 38:9

“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 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:53

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:55

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:12

They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:4

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

Lamentations 4:9

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Jeremiah 39:14

had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.

Jeremiah 39:15

And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

Acts 24:27

After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

Acts 28:16

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Acts 28:30

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.

Ephesians 4:1

As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

2 Timothy 2:9

for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!