3. King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to ask me to pray to the Lord our God on behalf of our nation.
4. I had not yet been put in prison and was still moving about freely among the people.
5. The Babylonian army had been besieging Jerusalem, but when they heard that the Egyptian army had crossed the Egyptian border, they retreated.
6. Then the Lord, the God of Israel, told me
7. to say to Zedekiah, “The Egyptian army is on its way to help you, but it will return home.