Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The dungeon - The cistern. Every house in Jerusalem was supplied with a subterranean cistern, so well constructed that the city never suffered in a siege from want of water. So large were they that when dry they seem to have been used for prisons Zechariah 9:11.
Hammelech - See Jeremiah 36:26 note.
The prison - The guard. They threw Jeremiah into the nearest cistern, intending that he should die of starvation. Some have thought that Ps. 69 was composed by Jeremiah when in this cistern.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 38:6:
Job 38:6
Psalms 40:2
Psalms 69:2
Jeremiah 36:26
Lamentations 3:55-66
Amos 2:12
Amos 6:6
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