Jer 37:1-21. Historical sections, thirty-seventh through forty-fourth chapters. The Chaldeans raise the siege to go and meet Pharaoh-Hophra. Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to pray to god in behalf of the Jews: in vain, Jeremiah tries to escape to his native place, but is arrested. Zedekiah abates the rigor of his imprisonment.
Coniah - curtailed from Jeconiah by way of reproach.
whom - referring to Zedekiah, not to Coniah (2Ki 24:17).