King James Version
Jeremiah 38:5 in the King James Version says “Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.”
Jeremiah 38:5 · KJV
Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. welfare: Heb. peace
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. of Hammelech: or, of the king
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“Behold he is in your hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
“do any thing”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
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