Jeremiah 37:3 - Exposition

And Zedekiah the king sent. This was Zedekiah's second embassy to Jeremiah. His request on the former occasion bad been for a prophecy; on the present it was for an "effectual fervent prayer," such as Hezekiah's embassy asked of Isaiah ( Isaiah 37:6 ). But the issue was to be very different from that in the case of Sennacherib's invasion! Jehucal . The same man appears in Jeremiah 38:1 , among those who brought about the imprisonment of Jeremiah. Zephaniah . The high priest's deputy, mentioned again in Jeremiah 21:1 ; Jeremiah 29:25 ; Jeremiah 52:24 .