(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
The queen - Nehushta, the queen-mother, daughter of Elnathan (2 Kings 24:8; 2 Kings 24:15). (Elnathan, her father, perhaps is the same as the one Jeremiah 26:22.) She reigned jointly with her son.
The princes. All the men of authority were taken away, lest they should organize a rebellion. Jeremiah wrote his letter, while the calamity was still recent, to console the captives under it.