15 Then the officials were (A)angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they (B)put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison. 16 For Jeremiah had come into the [a](C)dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

17 Now King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king (D)secretly asked him and said, “Is there a (E)word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be (F)given into the hand of the king of Babylon!”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:16 Lit house of the cistern-pit