The definition of the world from google is “ 1 ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something."his friends entreated him not to go"
2 synonyms:
3 implore, beseech, beg, plead with, supplicate, pray, ask, request; More
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ARCHAIC
treat (someone) in a specified manner”
So I’m guessing depending on the context it would be him asking/threatening in words!