Jer 21:9, 38:4 | ESV | STEP | He who stays in this city shall die by the sword , by famine , and by pestilence , but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war .

Jeremiah 21:9

9 He who stays in this city shall die ^aby the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and ^bsurrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live ^cand shall have his life as a prize of war.

Jeremiah 38:4

4 Then the officials said to the king, ^d“Let this man be put to death, ^efor he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking ^fthe welfare of this people, but their harm.”