John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:4
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans ,.... This is a continuation of the prophecy of Jeremiah, repeated by the king to him, and which concerns himself more especially; who, upon the taking of the city, would endeavour to make his escape, as he did; but should not be able, Jeremiah 52:8 ; but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon ; not only into the hands of his army, and of his generals, but into his own hand personally;... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-15
It appears by the date of this chapter that we are now coming very nigh to that fatal year which completed the desolations of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. God's judgments came gradually upon them, but, they not meeting him by repentance in the way of his judgments, he proceeded in his controversy till all was laid waste, which was in the eleventh year of Zedekiah; now what is here recorded happened in the tenth. The king of Babylon's army had now invested Jerusalem and was carrying on... read more