Jeremiah 37:21

The king moves Jeremiah to the guard's court and provides him daily bread until the city's supply fails.

Cross-references · 32

• Jer 38:28And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
• Jer 38:13and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
• Jer 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
• Jer 32:2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
• Jer 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
• 2 Kgs 25:3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
• Isa 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
• Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
• Ps 33:18–19Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
• Lam 4:9–10Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
• Lam 2:11–12My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
• Lam 4:4–5The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
• Acts 28:30Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.
• Acts 12:5So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
• Acts 28:16When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
• Acts 24:27After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.
• Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
• Eph 4:1As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
• 2 Tim 2:9for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
• 2 Tim 1:8So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
• Ps 34:9–10Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
• Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
• Ps 37:19In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
• Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
• Jer 39:14–15had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.
• Jer 32:8Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
• Deut 28:52–57They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
• 1 Kgs 17:4–6And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.
• Lam 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
• Lam 2:19–20Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

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