Introduction
Zedekiah’s last dealings with Jeremiah ch. 38
Some scholars regard chapter 38 as a retelling of the event just narrated in chapter 37. There is some precedent for such a practice in this book. There are two accounts of Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon (chs. 7 and 26) and perhaps two accounts of Jeremiah’s release by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 38:28 b; Jeremiah 39:3; Jeremiah 39:14 and Jeremiah 39:11-12; Jeremiah 40:1-6). However, it is also plausible that Jeremiah had to endure two similar imprisonments, or even more than two. I believe that this chapter records a different, albeit similar, and subsequent incident, because of the differences in the two accounts.
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