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Jeremiah 38

Jer. 38:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Zedekiah
Tsidqiyah (Hebrew #6667)
from 6664 and 3050; right of Jah; Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites
KJV usage: Zedekiah, Zidkijah.
Pronounce: tsid-kee-yaw'
Origin: or Tsidqiyahuw {tsid-kee-yaw'-hoo}
the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Jeremiah
Yirmyah (Hebrew #3414)
from 7311 and 3050; Jah will rise; Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
KJV usage: Jeremiah.
Pronounce: yir-meh-yaw'
Origin: or Yirmyahuw {yir-meh-yaw'-hoo}
, I am afraid
da'ag (Hebrew #1672)
be anxious
KJV usage: be afraid (careful, sorry), sorrow, take thought.
Pronounce: daw-ag'
Origin: a primitive root
of the Jews
Yhuwdiy (Hebrew #3064)
a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)
KJV usage: Jew.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-dee'
Origin: patronymically from 3063
that are fallen
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
to the Chaldeans
Kasdiy (Hebrew #3778)
towards the Kasdites
KJV usage: into Chaldea), patronymically from 3777 (only in the plural); a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people:--Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea.
Pronounce: kas-dee'
Origin: (occasionally with enclitic) Kasdiymah {kas-dee'- maw}
, lest they deliver
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
me into their hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
, and they mock
`alal (Hebrew #5953)
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
KJV usage: abuse, affect, X child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully).
Pronounce: aw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
u me.
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1 Sam. 31:4• 4Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. (1 Sam. 31:4)

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Chaldeans; Chaldees,
Jeremiah,
Jew,
Kings,
Zedekiah

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Jer. 38:5• 5Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do anything against you. (Jer. 38:5)
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1 Sam. 15:24• 24And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. (1 Sam. 15:24)
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Job 31:34• 34Because I feared the great multitude,{HR}And the contempt of families terrified me,{HR}So that I am silent, I go not out of the door. (Job 31:34)
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Prov. 29:25• 25The fear of man bringeth a snare;{HR}But whoso putteth his confidence in Jehovah is protected. (Prov. 29:25)
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Isa. 51:12‑13• 12I, I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou art afraid of weak man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [that] shall be made [as] grass;
 13and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? And where [is] the fury of the oppressor? (Isa. 51:12‑13)
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Isa. 57:11• 11And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou hast lied and not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? Have not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not? (Isa. 57:11)
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John 12:42• 42Still, however, from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess, that they might not be put out of the synagogue; (John 12:42)
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John 19:12‑13• 12From this [time] Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews kept crying, saying, If thou wilt release this [man], thou art not a friend of Caesar: every one that maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
 13Pilate then, having heard these words, led Jesus out and sat down on [the] judgment seat at a place called Pavement, but in Hebrew Gabbatha. (John 19:12‑13)
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Jer. 38:22• 22And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet have sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back. (Jer. 38:22)
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Judg. 9:54• 54Then he called hastily to the young man that carried his armour, and said to him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that they say not of me, A woman killed him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. (Judg. 9:54)
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Judg. 16:25• 25And it came to pass when their hearts were merry that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. (Judg. 16:25)
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1 Sam. 31:4• 4Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. (1 Sam. 31:4)
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Isa. 45:9‑10• 9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
 10Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? (Isa. 45:9‑10)
• Zedekiah evidently feared him, and in a vague, uncertain kind of way realized that God was with him. But be was of the number of those who cannot stand the sneers or the anger of their fellows, though they can sin against their Creator unblushingly. It is natural to fallen man to be ashamed to do what is right, if contrary to public opinion, and to do evil with a certain kind of pride. Of this stamp was the unworthy son of Josiah. He “loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” (“Chapter 21” by H.A. Ironside)
• What gross unbelief, when the Lord had just given the word that he should be spared if he surrendered. (“Chapter 21” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And king Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me over into their hand, and they mock me.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.