Jeremiah 37:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Jeremiah 37:15 —

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Cross-References

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Jeremiah 38:26
Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
2 Chronicles 18:26
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
Acts 5:18
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

Topics

Jeremiah Jonathan Mattaniah Minister, Christian Zedekiah

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

We have here a further account concerning Jeremiah, who relates more passages concerning himself than any other of the prophets; for the histories of the lives and sufferings of God’s ministers have been very serviceable to the church, as well as their preaching and writing. I. We are here told that Jeremiah, when he had an opportunity for it, attempted to retire out of Jerusalem into the country…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. scribe--one of the court secretaries; often in the East part of the private house of a public officer serves as a prison.