Jeremiah 38:5 Douay-Rheims

And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it is not lawful for the king to deny you any thing.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1871 Reformed

the king is not he--Zedekiah was a weak prince, and now in his straits afraid to oppose his princes. He hides his dislike of their overweening power, which prevented him shielding Jeremiah as he would have wished, under complimentary speeches. "It is not right that the king should deny aught to such faithful and wise statesmen"; the king is not such a one as to deny you your wishes [JEROME].

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1871 · Jeremiah 38:5

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