Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 38:1

1 THen Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying ,

Here are four of the great men Councellors, or great officers to Zedekiah named, of whom we have no further mention in holy Writ, nor are they worthy of much inquiry after; Ieremiah being now removed into a little freer air, where his friends, or such as had a desire to see him, came to him, and it is very likely were inquisitive to know what God would do with the City, he could not but tell them what he knew of the mind of God in the case, and advise them the best he could. Some of them go to these Princes, and inform them of what they had heard from the Prophet.