Jeremiah 39:15
New International Version
While Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him:

New Living Translation
The LORD had given the following message to Jeremiah while he was still in prison:

English Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard:

Berean Standard Bible
And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:

King James Bible
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

New King James Version
Meanwhile the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse, saying,

NASB 1995
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

NASB 1977
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the word of Yahweh had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard, saying,

Amplified Bible
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was [still] confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

Christian Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah when he was confined in the guard’s courtyard:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah when he was confined in the guard’s courtyard:

American Standard Version
Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was upon Jeremiah when he was shut up in the court of the Guard:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in the court of the prison, saying,

Contemporary English Version
While I was a prisoner in the courtyard of the palace guard, the LORD told me to say

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying:

English Revised Version
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the prison, the LORD spoke his word to him. The LORD said,

Good News Translation
While I was still imprisoned in the palace courtyard, the LORD told me

International Standard Version
This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was confined in the courtyard of the guard:

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying:

Literal Standard Version
And a word of YHWH has been to Jeremiah—in his being detained in the court of the prison—saying:

Majority Standard Bible
And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:

New American Bible
While Jeremiah was still imprisoned in the court of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him:

NET Bible
Now the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

New Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard:

New Heart English Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was confined in the court of the prison, saying,

World English Bible
Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And unto Jeremiah hath a word of Jehovah been -- in his being detained in the court of the prison -- saying:

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Context
Jeremiah Delivered
14had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people. 15And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him: 16“Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.…

Cross References
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.

Jeremiah 38:28
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.


Treasury of Scripture

Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

while.

Jeremiah 39:14
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

Jeremiah 32:1,2
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar…

Jeremiah 36:1-5
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, …

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Jeremiah 39
1. Jerusalem is taken.
4. Zedekiah is made blind and sent to Babylon.
8. The city laid in ruins,
9. and the people captivated.
11. Nebuchadrezzar's charge for the good usage of Jeremiah.
15. God's promise to Ebed Melech.














Verses 15-18. - A prophecy to Ebed-melech is here introduced, which, though uttered previously (see ch. 38.), could not have been mentioned before without breaking the sequence of events. For came, we might render had come.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And while [Jeremiah] had been
בִּֽהְיֹת֣וֹ (bih·yō·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

confined
עָצ֔וּר (‘ā·ṣūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 6113: To inclose, to hold back, to maintain, rule, assemble

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

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

the word
דְבַר־ (ḏə·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of the LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

had come
הָיָ֣ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to
וְאֶֽל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

[him]:
יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ (yir·mə·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3414: Jeremiah -- 'Yah loosens', the name of a number of Israelites


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