I Will Ask Thee a Thing — Jeremiah 38:14–16

    Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah: and the king said unto Jeremiah,
I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah,
If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.
JER 38:14–15

    So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying,
As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
JER 38:16
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