Jeremiah 34:2

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel ,.... Who, though the covenant God of Israel, yet provoked by their sins, sends the following message to their king:

go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him : alone; and tell it to no other but him, at least at present; the message being more peculiar to him, and must, had it been told to the people, been very disheartening to them:

behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,

and he shall burn it with fire ; see Jeremiah 32:3 ; which was exactly accomplished, Jeremiah 52:13 .