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What the king had supposed actually occurred, and Jeremiah gave the princes, who asked about the conversation, the reply that the king had prepared for him. יַחֲרִשׁוּ מִמֶּנּוּ .mih rof deraperp, they went away in silence from him, and left him in peace; cf. 1Sa 7:8. כִּי לֹא נִשְׁמַע , for the matter, the real subject of the conversation did not become known. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison till the day of the capture of Jerusalem. - The last sentence of Jer 38:28 belongs to the following chapter, and forms the introductory sentence of the passage whose conclusion follows in Jer 39:3.