20 “I am making you a fortified copper wall to this people.+

2 At that time the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the Courtyard of the Guard+ in the house* of the king of Judah.

33 The word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the Courtyard of the Guard,+ saying:

21 So King Zed·e·kiʹah ordered that Jeremiah be put in custody in the Courtyard of the Guard,+ and he was given a round loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers+ until all the bread in the city was gone.+ And Jeremiah remained in the Courtyard of the Guard.

13 So Neb·uʹzar·adʹan the chief of the guard, Neb·u·shazʹban the Rabʹsa·ris,* Nerʹgal-shar·eʹzer the Rabʹmag,* and all the principal men of the king of Babylon sent 14 and had Jeremiah taken out of the Courtyard of the Guard+ and handed him over to Ged·a·liʹah+ the son of A·hiʹkam+ the son of Shaʹphan+ to be brought to his house. So he lived among the people.