JEREMIAH 38
Zedekiah was a weak king who was more interested in being popular with his friends than in being right with God. Since he was a doubleminded man, he was “unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8).
First, he allowed some of his friends to arrest Jeremiah and put him in a dungeon. Next, he let Ebed-Melech and thirty guards rescue Jeremiah and take him to a safe place. Then, Zedekiah had a private meeting with Jeremiah to ask for help! If the king had accepted God’s message and obeyed it, he would have had the courage to stand up to his unbelieving friends and do what was right.
Jeremiah sank in the mire (v. 6), but the king was sinking even deeper (v.