OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 38:5

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5

Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

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Verse 5. Lawful. This is a compliment, or Sedecias complains indirectly that they had only left him the name of king. He grieved at the treatment of the prophet. Calmet.

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