Zedekiah: Capture but Peaceful Death: This section of Jeremiah goes back and forth between the time of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, and the third to last king, Jehoiakim. Chapter 34 was set at the time of Zedekiah, chapters 35–36 during the kingship of Jehoiakim, and now we are back to the time of Zedekiah. Chapters 37 and 38 present accounts of times when the prophet was placed in prison and even threatened with death because of his message. Jeremiah was preaching repentance and surrender to Babylon, since Babylon was God’s instrument of judgment. Thus, he was seen as someone who collaborated with the enemy and thus a danger to king and society. An interesting aspect of these stories is the nature of the private conversations between Jeremiah and Zedekiah. Publicly, Jeremiah boldly a…