Jeremías 38:5

5 El rey Sedequías respondió:—Lo dejo en sus manos. Ni yo, que soy el rey, puedo oponerme a ustedes.

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: “Esta ciudad caerá en poder del ejército del rey de Babilonia, y será capturada”».

4 Los jefes le dijeron al rey:—Hay que matar a este hombre. Con semejantes discursos está desmoralizando a los soldados y a todo el pueblo que aún quedan en esta ciudad. Este hombre no busca el bien del pueblo, sino su desgracia.

5 El rey Sedequías respondió:—Lo dejo en sus manos. Ni yo, que soy el rey, puedo oponerme a ustedes.

6 Ellos tomaron a Jeremías y, bajándolo con cuerdas, lo echaron en la cisterna del patio de la guardia, la cual era de Malquías, el hijo del rey. Pero como en la cisterna no había agua, sino lodo, Jeremías se hundió en él.

7 El etíope Ebedmélec, funcionario de la casa real, se enteró de que habían echado a Jeremías en la cisterna. En cierta ocasión cuando el rey estaba participando en una sesión frente al portón de Benjamín,