Jeremiah Arrested as a Deserter

Jeremiah 37:11-16

When the hoste of the Caldeans was broken vp from Ierusalem, because of Pharaohs armie,

Then Ieremiah went out of Ierusalem to goe into the land of Beniamin, separating himselfe thence from among the people.

And when hee was in the gate of Beniamin, there was a chiefe officer, whose name was Iriiah, the sonne of Shelemiah, the sonne of Hananiah, and he tooke Ieremiah the Prophet, saying, Thou fleest to the Caldeans.

Then sayde Ieremiah, That is false, I flee not to the Caldeans: but he would not heare him: so Iriiah tooke Ieremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Wherefore the princes were angry with Ieremiah, and smote him, and layde him in prison in the house of Iehonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the prisons, and had remained there a long time,

Jeremiah Arrested as a Deserter

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