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 stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
• Jer 38:13So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
• Jer 38:9“My 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. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
• Jer 32:2Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
• Jer 52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• 2 Kgs 25:3On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
• Job 5:20In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
• Ps 33:18–19Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
• Lam 4:9–10Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
• Lam 2:11–12My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
• Lam 4:4–5The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
• Acts 28:30Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,
• Acts 12:5Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
• Acts 28:16When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
• Acts 24:27But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
• Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• 2 Tim 2:9in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
• 2 Tim 1:8Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
• Ps 34:9–10Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
• Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
• Ps 37:19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• Jer 39:14–15they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people.
• Jer 32:8“So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.
• Deut 28:52–57They will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
• 1 Kgs 17:4–6You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Lam 5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
• Lam 2:19–20Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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