Jeremiah 37:12-14

Living Bible

¹² Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the land of Benjamin, to see the property he had bought.^{[a] 13} But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a sentry arrested him as a traitor, claiming he was defecting to the Babylonians. The guard making the arrest was Irijah (son of Shelemiah, grandson of Hananiah).

¹⁴ “That’s not true,” Jeremiah said. “I have no intention whatever of doing any such thing!”

But Irijah wouldn’t listen; he took Jeremiah before the city officials.