7"I, the GOD of Israel, want you to give this Message to the king of Judah, who has just sent you to me to find out what he should do. Tell him, "Get this: Pharaoh''s army, which is on its way to help you, isn''t going to stick it out. No sooner will they get here than they''ll leave and go home to Egypt.
Jeremiah 37 plunges us into the final, desperate days of Jerusalem before the Babylonian exile. The chapter opens with King Zedekiah, a weak ruler who replaces Jehoiachin, and immediately sets the stage for a clash between political expediency and prophetic truth. When the Babylo
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