Jeremiah 34:7

The prophet was not afraid to go and do the message God had intrusted him with to the king, upon which he was imprisoned, as we read before, Jeremiah 32:3: the time it should seem was after that the king of Babylon had invaded the country, and, taken the greatest part of it; only three fortified places remained, which he was besieging, viz. Jerusalem, which was the chief city of that country, and Lachish, of the conquest of which we read Joshua 10:31, disposed of to the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:39, and Azekah, which was a city of Judah, of which we read in the same Chapter s.