Jeremias 38:5

5 O rei Zedequias respondeu: “Ele está em suas mãos; o rei não pode opor-se a vocês”.

Jeremias 38:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 38:5

Then Zedekiah the king said, behold, he [is] in your hand
In your power, to do with him as you please. This is either a grant of the king, allowing them to do as they thought fit; or a declaration of their power, supposing them to be the princes of the sanhedrim, as Grotius thinks, to judge of a false prophet, and condemn him; but that they were such does not appear; nor does their charge of the prophet, or their procedure against him, confirm it. The former sense seems best: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you;
which is said either in a flattering way, that such was their interest in him, and so great his regard for them, that he could not deny them any thing. So it is in the old translations, "for the king may deny you nothing"; and, "the king can deny you nothing": or else in a complaining way, suggesting that, he was a king, and no king; that he had no power to oppose them; they would do as they pleased; and therefore it signified nothing applying to him; he should not say any thing against it; he would have no concern in it; they might do as they pleased, since he knew they would.

Jeremias 38:5 In-Context

3 E, assim diz o SENHOR: ‘Esta cidade certamente será entregue ao exército do rei da Babilônia, que a conquistará’.”

4 Então os líderes disseram ao rei: “Este homem deve morrer. Ele está desencorajando os soldados que restaram nesta cidade, bem como todo o povo, com as coisas que ele está dizendo. Este homem não busca o bem deste povo, mas a sua ruína”.

5 O rei Zedequias respondeu: “Ele está em suas mãos; o rei não pode opor-se a vocês”.

6 Assim, pegaram Jeremias e o jogaram na cisterna de Malquias, filho do rei, a qual ficava no pátio da guarda. Baixaram Jeremias por meio de cordas para dentro da cisterna. Não havia água na cisterna, mas somente lama; e Jeremias afundou na lama.

7 Mas Ebede-Meleque, o etíope, oficial do palácio real, ouviu que eles tinham jogado Jeremias na cisterna. Ora, o rei estava sentado junto à porta de Benjamim,