Judges 20:27
27And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord a(for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,1 Samuel 10:22
22 bSo they inquired again of the Lord, “Is there a man still to come?” and the Lord said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”1 Samuel 28:6
6And when Saul inquired of the Lord, cthe Lord did not answer him, either dby dreams, or eby Urim, or by prophets.1 Samuel 28:15
15Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and fGod has turned away from me and ganswers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”Jeremiah 37:3
3King Zedekiah sent hJehucal the son of iShelemiah, and jZephaniah the priest, the son of kMaaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please lpray for us to the Lord our God.”Jeremiah 37:7
7“Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who msent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, nPharaoh’s army that came to help you is about to oreturn to Egypt, to its own land.Jeremiah 38:14-27
Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah Again
14King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the Lord. The king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me.” 15Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.” 16Then King Zedekiah swore psecretly to Jeremiah, q“As the Lord lives, rwho made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of sthese men who seek your life.”17Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: tIf you will surrender to uthe officials of the king of Babylon, vthen your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live. 18But if you do not surrender to wthe officials of the king of Babylon, xthen this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, yand they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.” 19King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans zwho have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me.” 20Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the Lord in what I say to you, aaand it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared. 21But if you refuse to absurrender, this is the vision which the Lord has shown to me: 22Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying,
ac“‘Your trusted friends have deceived you
and prevailed against you;
now that your feet are sunk in the mud,
they turn away from you.’
23All your wives and adyour sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”
24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die. 25If aethe officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’ 26then you shall say to them, af‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’” 27Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.
Jeremiah 42:4-6
4Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your request, and agwhatever the Lord answers you I will tell you. ahI will keep nothing back from you.” 5Then they said to Jeremiah, ai“May the Lord be a true and ajfaithful witness against us akif we do not act according to all the word alwith which the Lord your God sends you to us. 6Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, amthat it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.”
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