Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 37:17

17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out, and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD , and Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon .

That is, hath God revealed any thing to thee, concerning what will be the issue of the return of the Chaldean Army to the siege of the City? what needed Zedekiah to have asked this, to whom God by this Prophet had so often revealed his will in this case? wicked men are alwayes more curious to know, then careful to believe, observe, and obey the will of God.

But God seldom or never speaketh good unto them; Ieremiah tells him there was, but it was a sad word, viz. That God would certainly deliver him into the hand or power of the King of Babylon.