Jeremiah 21:3-10
“He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.”
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Jeremiah's controversial call to surrender to Babylon as the only path to life, fulfilled when resisters died and surrenderers lived.
Fulfillment References
Jeremiah 52:24-27 Lamentations 4:18 Jeremiah 39:9
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