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 38:28So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
• Jer 38:13So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
• Jer 38:9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
• Jer 32:2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
• Jer 52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• 2 Kgs 25:3And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Isa 33:16He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
• Job 5:20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
• Ps 33:18–19Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
• Lam 4:9–10They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
• Lam 2:11–12Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
• Lam 4:4–5The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
• Acts 28:30And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
• Acts 12:5Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
• Acts 28:16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
• Acts 24:27But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
• Eph 6:20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• 2 Tim 2:9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
• 2 Tim 1:8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• Ps 34:9–10O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
• Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
• Ps 37:19They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
• Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Jer 39:14–15Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
• Jer 32:8So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
• Deut 28:52–57And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
• 1 Kgs 17:4–6And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Lam 5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
• Lam 2:19–20Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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