19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have (A)defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they (B)abuse me.”

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42 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but (A)because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

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12 From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. (A)Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

13 (B)When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

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22 ‘Now behold, all the (A)women who are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be surrendered to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say:

“Your close friends have [a]set upon you
And prevailed against you;
Your feet have sunk in the mire,
And they have [b]turned away again.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:22 Or misled
  2. Jeremiah 38:22 Deserted you

11 “And (A)of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
That you have lied
And not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to your heart?
Is it not because (B)I have [a]held My peace from of old
That you do not fear Me?

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  1. Isaiah 57:11 remained silent

12 “I, even I, am He (A)who comforts you.
Who are you that you should be afraid
(B)Of a man who will die,
And of the son of a man who will be made (C)like grass?
13 And (D)you forget the Lord your Maker,
(E)Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth;
You have feared continually every day
Because of the fury of the oppressor,
When he has prepared to destroy.
(F)And where is the fury of the oppressor?

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(A)Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who (B)defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.

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(A)Then Saul said to his armorbearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest (B)these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and [a]abuse me.”

But his armorbearer would not, (C)for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and (D)fell on it.

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  1. 1 Samuel 31:4 torture

“Woe to him who strives with (A)his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!
(B)Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’
Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”

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25 (A)The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be [a]safe.

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  1. Proverbs 29:25 secure, lit. set on high

24 (A)Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I (B)feared the people and obeyed their voice.

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25 So it happened, when their hearts were (A)merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may perform for us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

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54 Then (A)he called quickly to the young man, his armorbearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So his young man thrust him through, and he died.

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Then Zedekiah the king said, “Look, he is in your hand. For the king can do nothing against you.”

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34 Because I feared the great (A)multitude,
And dreaded the contempt of families,
So that I kept silence
And did not go out of the door—

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