Jeremías 38:5

5 El rey Sedequías estuvo de acuerdo.
—Está bien —dijo—, hagan lo que quieran. No los puedo detener.

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 El Señor
también dice: “La ciudad de Jerusalén ciertamente será entregada al ejército del rey de Babilonia, quien la conquistará”».

4 Entonces los funcionarios fueron a ver al rey y le dijeron:
—Señor, ¡este hombre debe morir! Esta forma de hablar desmoralizará a los pocos hombres de guerra que nos quedan, al igual que a todo el pueblo. ¡Este hombre es un traidor!

5 El rey Sedequías estuvo de acuerdo.
—Está bien —dijo—, hagan lo que quieran. No los puedo detener.

6 Así que los funcionarios sacaron a Jeremías de la celda y lo bajaron con sogas a una cisterna vacía en el patio de la cárcel que pertenecía a Malquías, miembro de la familia real. La cisterna no tenía agua pero Jeremías se hundió en una espesa capa de barro que había en el fondo.

7 Pero el etíope
Ebed-melec, un importante funcionario de la corte, se enteró de que Jeremías estaba en la cisterna. En ese momento el rey estaba en sesión junto a la puerta de Benjamín,