Jeremiah 38:9
"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city."
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- Jeremiah 37:21
"Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 31:8
"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 24:11
"If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;"
Read in chapter → - Job 31:34
"Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 52:6
"And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land."
Read in chapter → - Esther 7:4
"For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage."
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