² For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up ^(A)in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

²¹ Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah ^(A)to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers’ street, ^(B)until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

¹⁴ then they sent someone ^(A)to take Jeremiah from the court of the prison, and committed him ^(B)to Gedaliah the son of ^(C)Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.