Jeremiah 32:2

2. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up He had been arrested in an attempt to flee from Jerusalem, (Jeremiah 37:13,) and was kept in custody until the end of the siege. He seems, however, to have enjoyed considerable liberty, being kept, not in the “dungeon,” (Jeremiah 38:13,) but in the “court of the prison,” (Jeremiah 37:21,) where his friends were permitted access to him. So far from contradicting the thirty-seventh chapter as to the cause of Jeremiah’s imprisonment, this account is fully confirmatory, differing indeed in form and in fulness, but harmonizing perfectly in spirit and substance.