Jeremiah 39:15

Modern

And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:

Traditional

Now the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Literal

And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah in his being shut up in the court of the guard, saying:

Latin

Ad Jeremiam autem factus fuerat sermo Domini, cum clausus esset in vestibulo carceris, dicens:

Hebrew

English

And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:

Ebed-melech saved Jeremiah from dying in the muddy cistern (Jeremiah 38:7–13). This promise was a serious declaration (see study note on Jeremiah 2:2).

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 37:21
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
2 Timothy 2:9
…for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
Jeremiah 36:1–5
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Jeremiah 39:14
…had 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.
Jeremiah 32:1–2
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah: Son of Hilkiah, the prophet during Judah's final days