Jérémie 38:27

Louis Segond

Tous les chefs vinrent auprès de Jérémie et le questionnèrent. Il leur répondit entièrement comme le roi l'avait ordonné. Ils gardèrent alors le silence et se retirèrent, car la chose ne s'était pas répandue.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Tous les principaux donc vinrent vers Jérémie, et l'interrogèrent; mais il leur fit un rapport conforme à toutes les paroles que le Roi [lui] avait commandé de dire; et ils cessèrent de lui parler, car on n'avait rien su de cette affaire.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Tous les chefs vinrent donc vers Jérémie, et l'interrogèrent. Mais il leur répondit conformément à tout ce que le roi lui avait prescrit. Alors ils le laissèrent en repos; car on n'avait rien su de l'affaire.

Darby's French Translation
-Et tous les princes vinrent vers Jérémie, et l'interrogèrent; et il leur rapporta la chose selon toutes ces paroles que le roi avait commandées; et ils se turent et le laissèrent, car l'affaire ne s'ébruita pas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and he told: 1 Samuel 10:15, 1 Samuel 10:16, 1 Samuel 16:2-5, 2 Kings 6:19, Acts 23:6

left off speaking with him: Heb. were silent from him

Reciprocal: Proverbs 11:13 - he Jeremiah 38:25 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him,.... After he had parted with the king, and was come back to the court of the prison; as soon as the princes had been informed of the interview between the king and the prophet, which soon came to their ears, they came in a body to him, to the court of the prison, where he was, and asked him of what passed between him and the king:

and he told them according to all those words that the king had commanded; what he told them, no doubt, was truth; though he did not tell them all the truth; which he was not obliged to do, having no command from God, and being forbid by the king:

so they left off speaking with him; or, "were silent from him" e; went away silent, not being able to disprove what he had said, or object unto it, and finding they could get nothing more out of him:

for the matter was not perceived; or, "was not heard" f; though there were persons that saw the king and the prophet together, yet nobody heard anything that passed between them; and therefore Jeremiah could not be confronted in what he had said, or be charged with concealing anything.

e ויחרשו ממנו "et tacuerunt ab eo", Pagninus, Montanus; "siluerunt", Calvin. f לא נשמע הדבר "quia non auditum est verbum", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 38:27. The matter was not perceived. — They did not question him farther; and the king's commandment to remove him from the house of Jonathan being well known, they took for granted that they had all the information that they sought. And he was most certainly not obliged to relate any thing that might embroil this weak king with his factious but powerful princes, or affect his own life. He related simply what was necessary, and no more.