The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 32:5
O blessed death! "Until I visit him." Zedekiah does not seem to have been a bad man, though he did evil. Weak rather than wicked. One like our own Charles I. or Louis XVI . of France. One of those men unhappily called to places of great responsibility and difficulty, without the moral strength requisite for so arduous a post. A sadder life than that of King Zedekiah, the last king of Judah and Jerusalem, cannot be conceived. It is a piteous tale. Bereaved, a captive, blinded, he was... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 32:5
Until I visit him; i.e. until I take notice of him. "To visit" is used in a good ( Jeremiah 27:22 ; Jeremiah 29:10 ) as well as in a bad sense ( Jeremiah 6:15 ; Jeremiah 49:8 ), so that no definite announcement is made respecting Zedekiah's future. There was no object to gain by extending the scope of the revelation beyond the immediate present, and Zedekiah's offences did not require such an anticipative punishment as the clear prediction of the details of his fate ( Jeremiah... read more