Jeremiah 34:4-5

Du. challenges the statement in these vv. as not in consonance with the troublous ending of Zedekiah's life in exile. If the text be sound, "in peace" can only mean a natural death, as opposed to one by violence or by the executioner's sword. But there is likelihood in Co."s view that some words may have fallen out, and that the utterance ("Yet hear, etc.") was conditional on the king's timely submission to Babylon.