John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 37:16

"When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;" — Jeremiah 37:16 (ASV)

When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon
Or, "into the house of the pit" ^F12 ; a dungeon, like a pit or ditch, dark, dirty, or dismal: and into the cabins ;
or "cells" ^F13 ; into a place more inward than the cells, as the Targum; into the innermost and worst part in all the prison, where a man could not well lie, sit, nor stand: and Jeremiah had remained there many days ;
in this very uncomfortable condition; very probably till the Chaldean army returned to Jerusalem, as he foretold it should.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: (rwbh tyb la) "in, [vel] ad domum laci", Pagninus, Montanus; "in domum foveae", Schmidt.
• F13: (twynxh law) "et in cellulas illius", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "et ad cellas", Schmidt.