22. then the women of your palace will be taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar's officials. And those women will say to you:“Friends you trusted led you astray.Now you're trapped in mud,and those friends you trustedhave all turned away.
23. The Babylonian army will take your wives and children captive, you will be taken as a prisoner to the King of Babylonia, and Jerusalem will be burnt down.”
24. Zedekiah said, “Jeremiah, if you tell anyone what we have talked about, you might lose your life.
25. And I'm sure that if my officials hear about our meeting, they will ask you what we said to each other. They might even threaten to kill you if you don't tell them.
26. So if they question you, tell them you were begging me not to send you back to the prison at Jonathan's house, because going back there would kill you.”
27. The officials did come and question me about my meeting with the king, and I told them exactly what he had ordered me to say. They never spoke to me about the meeting again, since no one had heard us talking.
28. I was held in the courtyard of the palace guards until the day Jerusalem was captured.