Guarded words

24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know about these things, and you will not die.”

25But if the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, ‘Please tell us what you said to the king; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death, and what the king said to you,’

26Then you shall say to them, ‘I was presenting my plea before the king, that he should not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’

27Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he told them all these words that the king had commanded. So they were silent before him, for the matter had not been heard.

28And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured. And it happened when Jerusalem was captured—