Jeremiah 38:24-28

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24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know about these words and you will not die. 25 But if the ^aofficials hear that I have talked with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us now what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death,’ 26 then you are to say to them, ‘I was ^apresenting my petition before the king, not to make me return to the house of Jonathan to die there.’” 27 Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him. So he told them in accordance with all these words which the king had commanded; and they ceased speaking with him since the ¹conversation had not been overheard. 28 So Jeremiah ^astayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured.