Jeremiah 38:15-17

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵ Jeremiah replied to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, you will kill me, won’t you? Besides, if I give you advice, you won’t listen to me anyway.”

¹⁶ King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private,^(A) “As the Lord lives, who has given us this life,^(B) I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who want to take your life.”

¹⁷ Jeremiah therefore said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If indeed you surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon,^(C) then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.