Will you not listen...! - Rather, You will not listen.

Will you not surely put me to death? —The prophet obviously speaks as if he believed the king to have sanctioned the severe measur…

The Prophet seems here to have acted not very discreetly. For when he should have, of his own accord, announced the city's destruction to the king,…

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah
Here follows the prophet's answer, in which he tacitly desires to be excused saying anything up…

Jeremiah was not eager to repeat the warnings, which seemed only to endanger his own life and add to the king's guilt, but asked whether he feared …

1. Here, Jeremiah is freed from the fear of death, his safety having been granted to him by the king.

   1. The agreement for his…