Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.
For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying,“ Why do you prophesy and say,‘ Thus says the Lord:“ Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;