Jer 38:4 | NASB2020 | STEP | Then the officials said to the king , “ Please have this man put to death , since he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people , by speaking words like these to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people , but rather their harm .”

c Ex 5:4; 1 Kin 18:17, 18; 21:20; Neh 6:9; Amos 7:10; Acts 16:20

‏ Jeremiah 38:4

4 Then the ^aofficials said to the king, “Please have this man put to death, since he is ^{▼▼Lit making slack the hands of} ^cdiscouraging the men of war who are left in this city and ^{▼▼Lit the hands of all}all the people, by speaking words like these to them; for this man ^eis not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm.”