Jeremiah 38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For the king — I see I am as it were no king. I can do nothing against you, you will do what you please.

Thirty men — Probably the king commanded Ebed — melech to take thirty men to guard him against any opposition.

Lest they — Lest the Chaldeans should deliver me into the hands of those Jews which have fallen to them.

The women — Thou that art afraid of the insultings of men, shalt fall under the insultings of the women. Thy friends — For this thou mayest thank thy priests, and false prophets. And they — Have forsaken thee, every one shifting for himself.