³⁸ “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt^(A) for me from the Tower of Hananel^(B) to the Corner Gate.^(C)

¹³ But when he reached the Benjamin Gate,^(A) 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!”^(B)

⁷ But Ebed-Melek,^(A) a Cushite,^[a] an official^[b](B) in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,^(C)

Israel’s Restoration

¹¹ “In that day

⁶ “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot^(A) in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume^(B) all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact^(C) in her place.