Jeremiah 38:28
New International Version
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured. This is how Jerusalem was taken:

New Living Translation
And Jeremiah remained a prisoner in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

English Standard Version
And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Berean Standard Bible
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

King James Bible
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

New King James Version
Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

New American Standard Bible
So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured.

NASB 1995
So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse until the day that Jerusalem was captured.

NASB 1977
So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse until the day that Jerusalem was captured.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured.

Amplified Bible
So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse until the day that Jerusalem was captured [by the Chaldeans of Babylon].

Christian Standard Bible
Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened.

American Standard Version
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Jeremiah remained in the court of the house of prisoners until the day that Jerusalem was besieged

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Jeremias remained in the court of the prison, until the time when Jerusalem was taken.

Contemporary English Version
I was held in the courtyard of the palace guards until the day Jerusalem was captured.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.

English Revised Version
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison until the day Jerusalem was captured.

Good News Translation
And I was kept in the palace courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

International Standard Version
Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And it came to pass, when Jerusalem was taken--

Literal Standard Version
and Jeremiah dwells in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem has been captured, and he was [there] when Jerusalem was captured.

Majority Standard Bible
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

New American Bible
Thus Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day Jerusalem was taken.

NET Bible
So Jeremiah remained confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem was captured. The Fall of Jerusalem and Its Aftermath The following events occurred when Jerusalem was captured.

New Revised Standard Version
And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

New Heart English Bible
So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

World English Bible
So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison till the day that Jerusalem hath been captured, and he was there when Jerusalem was captured.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jeremiah Rescued
27When all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, he relayed to them the exact words the king had commanded him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had overheard the conversation. 28And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

Cross References
Psalm 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 15:21
I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."

Jeremiah 33:1
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

Jeremiah 37:20
But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there."

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 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.


Treasury of Scripture

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

Jeremiah 38:13
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 15:20,21
And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD…

Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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Jeremiah 38
1. Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of Malchiah.
7. Ebed-Melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement.
14. Upon secret conference, he counsels the king by yielding to save his life.
24. By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from the princes.














Verse 28. - And he was there when, etc. The words, of which this is an incorrect version, ought to begin the first verse of the next chapter. Render (with Coverdale), And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken (in the ninth year of Zedekiah came Nebuchadrezzar, etc.; in the eleventh year...the city was cleft open) that all the princes, etc. The correctness of the reading is, however, open to some doubt (see introduction to next chapter)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And Jeremiah
יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙ (yir·mə·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3414: Jeremiah -- 'Yah loosens', the name of a number of Israelites

remained
וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב (way·yê·šeḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in the courtyard
בַּחֲצַ֣ר (ba·ḥă·ṣar)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 2691: A yard, a hamlet

of the guard
הַמַּטָּרָ֔ה (ham·maṭ·ṭā·rāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4307: A guard, ward, prison, target, mark

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the day
י֖וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

Jerusalem
יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (yə·rū·šā·lim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel

was captured.
נִלְכְּדָ֣ה (nil·kə·ḏāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere


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