Jeremiah 38:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁴ Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, ‘Do not let anyone else know of this conversation, or you will die. ²⁵ If the officials should hear that I have spoken with you, and they should come and say to you, “Just tell us what you said to the king; do not conceal it from us, or we will put you to death. What did the king say to you?” ²⁶ then you shall say to them, “I was presenting my plea to the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.”’