Jeremiah Escapes Death - Jeremiah 37:3-21, 38:1-28
...King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly to Jeremiah: "As surely as the Lord lives, who has given us breath, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who are seeking your life." Jeremiah 38:16
King Zedekiah comes to Jeremiah to inquiry what the Lord has to say. The King swears on the living God. Yet the word from God's prophets has always been the same - how Jerusalem will fall at the hands of the Babylonians and how Zedekiah will be blinded and die.
Zedekiah believes in God, inquires after Him and wants to know what He has to say. And Jeremiah and others tell him. He just doesn't hear. We, as believers, talk to God, read His word, inquiry of Him and seek His will. But do we have ears to hear? And do we listen? Lord knows.
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