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Jeremiah 38:28
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah remains confined in the courtyard of the guard after privately relaying King Zedekiah's instructions to the officials, staying there until the city falls.
The words — וַיֵּשֶׁב (va.ye.shev) translates "and he remained," anchored by עַד־ (ad) "until," which frames his fixed location until נִלְכְּדָה (nil.kedah) "it was captured."
The thread — This detention originates in Jeremiah 37:21 when Zedekiah orders Jeremiah placed in the courtyard of the guard and ends in Jeremiah 39:14 when officials retrieve him from that same location.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that prophetic witness continues within political imprisonment, demanding acceptance that historical collapse does not nullify the messenger's assigned position.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 37:21 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.
- 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.
- Psalms 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
- Jeremiah 15:20 Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares 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.
- 2 Timothy 3:11 my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
- 2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.