38:19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they {i} mock me.
(i) Which declares that he more feared the reproach of men than the threatenings of God.
38:19 Lest they - Lest the Chaldeans should deliver me into the hands of those Jews which have fallen to them.
38:14-28 Jeremiah was not forward to repeat the warnings, which seemed only to endanger his own life, and to add to the king's guilt, but asked whether he feared to do the will of God. The less men fear God, the more they fear men; often they dare not act according to their own judgments and consciences.
