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Jeremiah 37:16

Thus was Hieremie put into a dungeon and prison, and so lay there a long tyme.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Criminals;   Jeremiah;   Minister, Christian;   Zedekiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prisons;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Zedekiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cabins;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cabin;   Jeremiah;   Prison, Prisoners;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Cabin;   Government;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonathan;   Pharaoh;   Prison;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cabin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cabin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Imprisonment;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and stayed there many days.
Hebrew Names Version
When Yirmeyahu was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Yirmeyahu had remained there many days;
King James Version
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
English Standard Version
When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days,
New American Standard Bible
For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.
New Century Version
So those people put Jeremiah into a cell in a dungeon, and Jeremiah was there for a long time.
Amplified Bible
When Jeremiah had come into the vaulted cell in the dungeon and had remained there many days,
World English Bible
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Geneva Bible (1587)
When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the prisons, & had remained there a long time,
Legacy Standard Bible
For Jeremiah had come into the pit, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.
Berean Standard Bible
So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
Complete Jewish Bible
The cistern had been made into a dungeon, and Yirmeyahu was put in one of its cells; there he remained for a long time.
Darby Translation
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
Easy-to-Read Version
They put Jeremiah into a cell under the house of Jonathan. The cell was in a dungeon under the ground. Jeremiah was there for a long time.
George Lamsa Translation
And they lowered Jeremiah from the opening of the well into its depths, and Jeremiah remained there many days;
Good News Translation
I was put in an underground cell and kept there a long time.
Lexham English Bible
So Jeremiah came to the dungeon, even to the vaulted cells, and Jeremiah stayed there many days.
Literal Translation
When Jeremiah had gone into the house of the pit, and into the cells, then Jeremiah remained there many days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus was Ieremy put in to the dongeon & preson, and so laye there a longe tyme.
American Standard Version
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Bible in Basic English
So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
King James Version (1611)
When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the cabbins, and Ieremiah had remained there many dayes:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they that spoil thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered thee.
English Revised Version
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Jeremye entride in to the hous of the lake, and in to the prisoun of trauel; and Jeremye sat there manye daies.
Update Bible Version
When Jeremiah came into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Webster's Bible Translation
When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
New English Translation
So Jeremiah was put in prison in a cell in the dungeon in Jonathan's house. He was kept there for a long time.
New King James Version
When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
New Living Translation
Jeremiah was put into a dungeon cell, where he remained for many days.
New Life Bible
After Jeremiah had been in an under-ground prison many days,
New Revised Standard
Thus Jeremiah was put in the cistern house, in the cells, and remained there many days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon-house and into the cells, and Jeremiah, had remained there many days,
Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-15) So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.
Revised Standard Version
When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells, and remained there many days,
Young's Literal Translation
When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

Contextual Overview

11 Nowe when the hoast of the Chaldees was broken vp from Hierusalem for feare of the Egyptians armie, 12 Ieremie went out of Hierusalem towarde the lande of Beniamin, to get hym from among the people. 13 And when he came vnder Beniamins port, there was a porter called Ieriah, the sonne of Selemiah, the sonne of Hananiah, which fell vpon hym, and toke hym, saying: Thy mynde is to runne to the Chaldees. 14 Then sayde Ieremie, It is not so, I go not to the Chaldees: Neuerthelesse, Ieriah woulde not beleue hym, but brought Ieremie bounde before the princes. 15 Wherfore the princes were angry with Ieremie, & smote hym, and layde hym in prison in the house of Ionathan the scribe: for they had made that house the prison. 16 Thus was Hieremie put into a dungeon and prison, and so lay there a long tyme. 17 Then Zedekia the kyng sent for him, and called hym, and asked hym quietly in his owne house, saying: Thinkest thou this businesse [that nowe is in hande] commeth of the Lorde? Ieremie aunswered, Yea that it doth: and thou (sayde he) shalt be deliuered into the kyng of Babylons power. 18 Moreouer, Ieremie sayde vnto king Zedekia, What haue I offended agaynst thee, agaynst thy seruauntes, or agaynst this people, that ye haue put me in prison? 19 Where are your prophetes which haue prophecied vnto you, and sayde, that the kyng of Babylon shoulde not come agaynst you and this lande? 20 And therfore heare nowe O my Lorde the kyng, let my prayer be accepted before thee, and sende me no more into the house of Ionathan the scribe, that I dye not there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3415, bc 589

into the dungeon: Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:10-13, Genesis 40:15, Lamentations 3:53, Lamentations 3:55

cabins: or, cells

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:31 - if the head Isaiah 51:14 - die Jeremiah 20:2 - smote Lamentations 3:52 - chased Mark 12:3 - they Luke 4:28 - were Luke 20:10 - beat Acts 16:24 - the inner 2 Corinthians 6:5 - imprisonments

Cross-References

Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me O thou whom my soule loueth, where thou feedest the sheepe, where thou makest them rest at the noone day: for why shall I be like hym that goeth wrong about the flockes of thy companions?
Luke 19:10
For the sonne of man is come to seke, and to saue that which was lost.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon,.... Or, "into the house of the pit" l; a dungeon, like a pit or ditch, dark, dirty, or dismal:

and into the cabins; or "cells" m; into a place more inward than the cells, as the Targum; into the innermost and worst part in all the prison, where a man could not well lie, sit, nor stand:

and Jeremiah had remained there many days; in this very uncomfortable condition; very probably till the Chaldean army returned to Jerusalem, as he foretold it should.

l אל בית הבור "in, [vel] ad domum laci", Pagninus, Montanus; "in domum foveae", Schmidt. m ואל החניות "et in cellulas illius", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "et ad cellas", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dungeon - literally, house of a cistern or pit, and evidently underground. In this cistern-like excavation were several cells or arched vaults, in one of which with little light and less ventilation Jeremiah remained a long time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 37:16. Entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins — The dungeon was probably a deep pit; and the cabins or cells, niches in the sides, where different malefactors were confined. See Blayney.


 
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