KJV ORIGINAL
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
King Zedekiah told Jeremiah, 'I'm scared of the Jewish people who've already switched sides to the Babylonians. What if they hand me over to them and I become a laughingstock?'
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Even kings get paralyzed by fear of what people might think or do to them.
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