Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 38:19

19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews, that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me .

But if Zedekiah went out according to the Prophets advice, and delivered himself, what needed he to fear his Subjects, that had deserted the City, delivering of him? It seems rather therefore to be the sense, lest the Chaldeans when I have yielded my self to them, should deliver me into the hands of those Iews which have fallen to them, and they should mock me, so as he seems to be more concerned for his honour then for his own life, and his Families, and the whole City; thus often great persons are more patient of death, then of reproach and dishonour.