Jeremiah 38:26-30
Jeremiah 38:26
then you are to say to them, ‘I was presenting my plea before the king, not to make me return to the house of Jonathan to die there.’ ”
Jeremiah 38:27
Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him. So he reported to them in accordance with all these words which the king had commanded; and they stopped speaking with him, since the conversation had not been overheard.
Jeremiah 38:28
So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured.