² The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging^(A) Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined^(B) in the courtyard of the guard^(C) in the royal palace of Judah.

¹³ and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.^(A)

²⁸ And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard^(A) until the day Jerusalem was captured.

The Fall of Jerusalem^(B)

This is how Jerusalem^(C) was taken: