10. For even if you had struck down the entire Chaldean army fighting against you, and there were left among them only wounded men, each in his tent, they would get up and burn this city down with fire.”
11. So it came to pass, when the army of the Chaldeans went up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
12. that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people.
13. But when he was at the Benjamin Gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah, who arrested the prophet Jeremiah, saying: “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
14. But Jeremiah said, “That’s a lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him, but arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
15. The officials were angry with Jeremiah, had him beaten, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison.
16. For Jeremiah went into a vaulted cell in the dungeon pit, and Jeremiah remained there many days.
17. Then King Zedekiah sent for him and received him in his palace secretly, and the king asked him: “Is there any word from Adonai?” “There is,” Jeremiah said, and he also said, “You shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
18. Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah: “How have I sinned against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
19. Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying: ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?’