Jeremiah 37:1
37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of {a}
     Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of
     Babylon {b} made king in the land of Judah.

     (a) Who was called Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah.
     (b) And called him Zedekiah, while before his name was
         Mattaniah, 2 Kings 24:17.

Jeremiah 37:3
37:3 And Zedekiah the king {c} sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah
     and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet
     Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the LORD our God for us.

     (c) Because he was afraid of the Chaldeans who came against
         him.

Jeremiah 37:4
37:4 Now Jeremiah came {d} in and went out among the people: for
     they had not put him into prison.

     (d) That is, was out of prison and free.

Jeremiah 37:5
37:5 Then Pharaoh's army had {e} come from Egypt: and when the
     Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them,
     they departed from Jerusalem.

     (e) To help the Jews.

Jeremiah 37:12
37:12 Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the {f}
      land of Benjamin, to separate himself from there in the
      midst of the people.

      (f) As some think, to go to Anathoth his own town.

Jeremiah 37:13
37:13 And when he was in the {g} gate of Benjamin, a captain of
      the guard [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of
      Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the
      prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

      (g) By which men went into the country of Benjamin.

Jeremiah 37:15
37:15 Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and beat
      him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the
      scribe: for they had made that the {h} prison.

      (h) Because it was a vile and straight prison.

Jeremiah 37:21
37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
      Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they
      should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's
      street, until all the {i} bread in the city should be
      consumed. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the
      prison.

      (i) That is, so long as there was any bread in the city:
          thus God provides for his, that he will cause their
          enemies to preserve them to that end to which he has
          appointed them.