Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"He was there when Jerusalem was taken"
Text: Jeremiah 38:28
JERUSALEM CAPTURED
Zedekiah was right in predicting that the princes would interrogate him. Jeremiah was summoned to appear before the princes.
“Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him.
And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.
So they stopped speaking with him,
for the conversation had not been heard.
Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison
until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
And he was there when Jerusalem was taken.”
Jeremiah 38:27-28
1. “Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him.
And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.
So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been heard”
a) All the princes came to Jeremiah.
i) They did not trust Zedekiah.
ii) They wanted to know what the king and Jeremiah discussed.
b) Jeremiah kept the word of the king.
i) He did not tell them what they wanted to know.
ii) He refused to disclose what he and the king discussed.
c) The conversation with the king.
i) The content was not disclosed.
ii) What would be the point of disclosing anyway?
2. “Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
And he was there when Jerusalem was taken”
a) The princes did not kill Jeremiah.
b) They took no action against him.
c) Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
d) Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians as the prophet Jeremiah had warned.
e) Jeremiah lived to bear witness of the fall of Jerusalem!