Jer 38:1-6 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Jer 38:1-13: 38:1-13 Jeremiah was free to talk to people while he was in the prison courtyard. He repeated the Lord’s decrees of judgment, but this stirred fierce anger among some of the government officials. Zedekiah showed his cowardice by letting these men put Jeremiah in a muddy cistern; the king also had a courageous moment when he permitted a palace servant to rescue Jeremiah and return him to the palace prison. 38:1 The Gedaliah mentioned here had a different father than the Gedaliah in 40:6 . • The first Pashhur might have been the man in 20:1 . The second Pashhur had a different father.

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‏ Jeremiah 38:1-6

Summary for Jer 38:1-13: 38:1-13 ^a Jeremiah was free to talk to people while he was in the prison courtyard. He repeated the Lord’s decrees of judgment, but this stirred fierce anger among some of the government officials. Zedekiah showed his cowardice by letting these men put Jeremiah in a muddy cistern; the king also had a courageous moment when he permitted a palace servant to rescue Jeremiah and return him to the palace prison. 38:1 ^b The Gedaliah mentioned here had a different father than the Gedaliah in 40:6 ^c.

• The first Pashhur might have been the man in 20:1 ^d. The second Pashhur had a different father.
38:4 ^e The officials apparently believed that the morale of the men resisting the Babylonian army outside the walls of the city would be harmed if Jeremiah continued to prophesy, so they put him on trial for treason.
38:5 ^f When the officials angrily confronted King Zedekiah and made their demands, he was weak and cowardly.
38:6 ^g In the presence of everyone in the palace courtyard, Jeremiah was thrown into an empty cistern. At the bottom was a thick layer of mud that slowly enveloped Jeremiah’s body.