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Jeremiah 38:15

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KJV ORIGINAL

Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?

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Jeremiah looked at King Zedekiah and was like, 'If I tell you the truth, you're gonna have me killed, aren't you? And if I give you advice, you're not even gonna listen to me anyway.'

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes the hardest conversations are with people who ask for honesty but can't handle it.

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This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go and speak to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD says: Look, I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down with fire.'

King Zedekiah of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, 'Why do you keep prophesying and claiming that the LORD says, Look, I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will capture it?'

So King Zedekiah (Josiah's son) became king instead of Coniah (who was Jehoiakim's son). But here's the thing — Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, was actually the one who put Zedekiah on the throne in Judah.

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