11 ¶ When the host of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem, because of Pharaoh’s army,

12 Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the [a]land of Benjamin, separating himself thence from among the people.

13 And when he was in the [b]gate of Benjamin, there was a chief officer, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he took Jeremiah the Prophet, saying, Thou [c]fleest to the Chaldeans.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:12 As some think, to go to Anathoth his own town.
  2. Jeremiah 37:13 By the which men went into the country of Benjamin.
  3. Jeremiah 37:13 Hebrew, fallest.

11 After the Babylonian army had withdrawn(A) from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army, 12 Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property(B) among the people there. 13 But when he reached the Benjamin Gate,(C) the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”(D)

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