John Wesley’s NotesJeremiah 38

For the king - I see I am as it were no king. I can do nothing against you, you will do what you please.

Thirty men - Probably the king commanded Ebed - melech to take thirty men to guard him against any opposition.

Lest they - Lest the Chaldeans should deliver me into the hands of those Jews which have fallen to them.

The women - Thou that art afraid of the insultings of men, shalt fall under the insultings of the women. Thy friends - For this thou mayest thank thy priests, and false prophets. And they - Have forsaken thee, every one shifting for himself.