Jeremías 38:5

5 Y el rey Sedequías dijo: He aquí, él está en vuestras manos; pues el rey nada puede hacer contra vosotros.

Jeremías 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.

Jeremías 38:5 In-Context

3 Así dice el SEÑOR: "Ciertamente esta ciudad será entregada en manos del ejército del rey de Babilonia, y él la tomará."

4 Entonces dijeron los oficiales al rey: Den muerte ahora a este hombre, porque él desanima a los hombres de guerra que quedan en esta ciudad y a todo el pueblo diciéndoles tales palabras; pues este hombre no busca el bien de este pueblo, sino el mal.

5 Y el rey Sedequías dijo: He aquí, él está en vuestras manos; pues el rey nada puede hacer contra vosotros.

6 Tomando ellos a Jeremías, lo echaron en la cisterna de Malaquías, hijo del rey, que había en el patio de la guardia, y bajaron a Jeremías con cuerdas. En la cisterna no había agua, sino lodo, y Jeremías se hundió en el lodo.

7 Al oír Ebed-melec el etíope, eunuco del palacio del rey, que habían echado a Jeremías en la cisterna, estando el rey sentado a la puerta de Benjamín,