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26 If they ask you, tell them, ‘I was ·begging [L making my pleas for help/supplications/falling before] the king not to ·send [return] me back to Jonathan’s house to die.’”

27 All the officers did come to question Jeremiah. So he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. Then the officers said no more to Jeremiah, because no one had heard what Jeremiah and the king had discussed.

28 So Jeremiah stayed under guard in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

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26 then tell(A) them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house(B) to die there.’”

27 All the officials did come to Jeremiah and question him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard his conversation with the king.

28 And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard(C) until the day Jerusalem was captured.

The Fall of Jerusalem(D)

This is how Jerusalem(E) was taken:

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