The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 37:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And Zedekiah the king sent. This was Zedekiah's second embassy to Jeremiah. His request on the former occasion bad been for a prophecy; on the present it was for an "effectual fervent prayer," such as Hezekiah's embassy asked of Isaiah (Isaiah 37:6).

But the issue was to be very different from that in the case of Sennacherib's invasion! Jehucal. The same man appears in Jeremiah 38:1, among those who brought about the imprisonment of Jeremiah. Zephaniah.

The high priest's deputy, mentioned again in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 52:24.

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