37:18-20
Jeremiah, not unreasonably, reminds Zedekiah that he is currently imprisoned, and for no good reason. He then goes on to point out that the prophets Zedekiah listened to had got it badly wrong. They had said Babylon would not attack, yet Babylon had indeed attacked. So why does Zedekiah not realise that he was listening to rubbish and instead start to really listen to Jeremiah? Now Jeremiah calls on Zedekiah to not send him back to be imprisoned at the house of Jonathan the secretary. Conditions were clearly not good there.
37:21
Zedekiah seems to have some notion that his favoured prophets (the ones who told him what he wanted to hear) were not exactly reliable, and maybe there was something to what Jeremiah had been saying all along. So Zedekiah orders that Jeremiah is allowed to stay in the “courtyard of the guard”, and is supplied with food.
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