Jer 37:21 | NET2full | STEP | Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse . He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was gone . So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse .

Jeremiah 37:21

21 Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread ^{▼▼tn Heb “And/Then King Zedekiah ordered, and they committed Jeremiah to [or deposited…in] the courtyard of the guardhouse and they gave to him a loaf of bread.” The translation has been structured the way it has to avoid the ambiguous “they,” which is the impersonal subject, which is sometimes rendered as passive in English (cf. GKC 460 §144.d). This text also has another example of the vav (ו) + infinitive absolute continuing a finite verbal form (וְנָתֹן [venaton] = “and they gave”; cf. GKC 345 §113.y and see Jer 32:44 and 36:23).} be given to him every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept ^{▼▼tn Heb “stayed,” “remained,” “lived.”} in the courtyard of the guardhouse.