1. The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
2. At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, while Jeremiah the prophet was confined to the court of the guard, in the house of the king of Judah.
3. Zedekiah, king of Judah, had confined him there, saying: “How dare you prophesy: Thus says the Lord: I am handing this city over to the king of Babylon that he may capture it.