Jeremiah 32:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֣ר כְּלָא֔וֹ צִדְקִיָּ֥הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר מַדּוּעַ֩ אַתָּ֨ה נִבָּ֜א לֵאמֹ֗ר כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִ֨י נֹתֵ֜ן אֶת־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֛את בְּיַ֥ד מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל וּלְכָדָֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Whom kĕlā'ô ṣidqîyāhû meleḵ-yĕhûdāh lē'mōr why you nibbā' lē'mōr thus 'āmar YHWH behold me nōtēn 'et-the 'îr the this in yad meleḵ-bābel and he will capture it.

Grammar Details

• *kĕlā'ô*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - he imprisoned him
• *ṣidqîyāhû*: proper noun, masculine - Zedekiah
• *meleḵ*: noun, masculine, singular construct - king of
• *yĕhûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *lē'mōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying
• *nibbā'*: verb, niphal participle, masculine singular - prophesying
• *'āmar*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - said
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD/Yahweh
• *nōtēn*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - giving/about to give
• *'îr*: noun, feminine, singular - city
• *yad*: noun, feminine, singular construct - hand of
• *bābel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *ûlĕḵādāh*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and he will capture it

Word Meanings

• *kĕlā'ô*: imprisoned him/confined him/restrained him
• *lē'mōr*: saying/declaring [speech marker]
• *nibbā'*: prophesying/proclaiming as a prophet
• *hinnēnî*: behold me/here I am [presentative particle]
• *nōtēn*: giving/delivering/placing

Referenced Verses

• Jer 34:2-3 : 2 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire: 3 And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.
• Jer 21:4-7 : 4 The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town. 5 And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath. 6 And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death. 7 And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.
• Jer 26:8-9 : 8 Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate. 9 Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
• Jer 32:28-29 : 28 So this is what the Lord has said: See, I am giving this town into the hands of the Chaldaeans and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it: 29 And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
• Jer 27:8 : 8 And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.
• Jer 37:6-9 : 6 Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 7 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land. 8 And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire. 9 The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away. 10 For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
• Jer 38:4 : 4 Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
• Jer 38:8 : 8 And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,
• Amos 7:13 : 13 But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.
• Luke 20:2 : 2 That the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people came to him and said, Make clear to us by what authority you do these things and who gave you this authority.
• Acts 6:12-14 : 12 And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin, 13 And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law: 14 For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.
• Exod 5:4 : 4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.
• 2 Kgs 6:31-32 : 31 Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day. 32 But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life?
• 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
• Jer 5:3 : 3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.