²⁵ And if the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, ‘Please tell us what you said to the king. You must not conceal it from us so that we will not kill you. And what did the king say to you?’ ²⁶ Then you shall say to them, ‘I was presenting my plea before^[a] the king, to not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there.’” ²⁷ And all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he informed them like all these words that the king commanded. So they fell silent, for the conversation^[b] was not heard.