Jehucal

Jehucal (also called Jucal) was an official at the court of King Zedekiah of Judah who opposed the prophet Jeremiah. He is mentioned in Jeremiah 37:3, where Zedekiah sent him to ask Jeremiah to pray for the nation, and in Jeremiah 38:1, where he joined others in demanding Jeremiah's death on the grounds that his prophecies of doom were weakening the hands of the soldiers defending Jerusalem. Jeremiah was then cast into a muddy cistern. Jehucal represents the political opposition that Jeremiah consistently faced from the Jerusalem establishment in the final years before the exile.