Jeremiah 34:4

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah,.... Which, though a king, he ought to hearken to; and, besides, what follows was for comfort, being a mitigation of his sentence, and…

This prophecy concerning Zedekiah was delivered to Jeremiah, and by him to the parties concerned, before he was shut up in the prison, for we find this prediction here made the ground of his…

Du. challenges the statement in these vv. as not in consonance with the troublous ending of Zedekiah's life in exile. If the text be sound, "in peace" can only mean a natural death, as opposed to one…