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2.3 KiB
Jeremiah 38 Translation Questions
Q? What will happen to the city?
A. The Chaldeans (Babylonians) will capture it. [38:3]
Q? What will happen to the people who stay in the city?
A. They will die from the sword, famine, and plague. [38:2]
Q? How can people stay alive?
A. They can stay alive by going out to the Chaldeans. [38:2]
Q? Why did the officials want Jeremiah to die?
A. They wanted him to die because he was telling the soldiers to desert to the Chaldeans. [38:4]
Q? What did the officials do to Jeremiah?
A. They put him in a cistern. [38:6]
Q? What did Ebed Melech tell the king concerning Jeremiah?
A. He told the king, the officials had done evil with the way they treated Jeremiah the prophet. They threw him into a cistern for him to die in it from hunger. [38:7-8]
Q? What did king Zedekiah command Ebed Melech concerning Jeremiah?
A. King Zedekiah commanded Ebed Melech to take thirty men and get Jeremiah out of the cistern before Jeremiah died. [38:10]
Q? What did Jeremiah think Zedekiah would do if Jeremiah tells him the truth?
A. He thought Zedekiah would kill him. [38:15]
Q? How did Zedekiah persuade Jeremiah to give him an answer?
A. Zedekiah swore by Yahweh that he would not kill him. [38:16]
Q? What did Jeremiah say to Zedekiah?
A. Jeremiah told Zedekiah that if he went out to the Chaldeans he would live, but if he did not, he and the city would be destroyed. [38:17-18]
Q? Why was King Zedekiah afraid of the people of Judah who had deserted to the Chaldeans?
A. He was afraid that Nebuchadnezzar would allow them to treat him badly. [38:19]
Q? What assurance did Jeremiah give to King Zedekiah?
A. He told King Zedekiah that if Zedekiah obeyed the message from Yahweh, Nebuchadnezzar would not allow the people to treat Zedekiah badly. [38:20]
Q? What would the women do if Zedekiah refused to go out?
A. They would rebuke and taunt him. [38:22-23]
Q? What did Zedekiah tell Jeremiah to say to anyone who asked him what he and Zedekiah talked about?
A. He told Jeremiah to tell them that Jeremiah went to plead with him not to return Jeremiah to Jonathan's house to die. [38:24-26]
Q? What happened when the officials from the house of Judah questioned Jeremiah?
A. Jeremiah told them what Zedekiah told him to say. [38:27-28]