Jeremiah 36:5

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“Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;”

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BSBPD

“Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Jeremiah commandeth Baruch, saying, `I am restrained, I am not able to enter the house of Jehovah;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 36:5 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
  2. Jeremiah 32:2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
  3. Jeremiah 33:1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
  4. Jeremiah 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
  5. Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
  6. Jeremiah 38:28And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
  7. Jeremiah 40:4But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
  8. 2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
  9. Ephesians 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...
  10. Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
  11. 2 Timothy 2:9for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
  12. Hebrews 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

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