Jeremiah 28:19

18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah the king of Judea, They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, my brother! Ah, sister!" They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, Lord! Ah, his glory!" 19 With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, Drawn out and cast forth Beyond the gates of Jerusalem. 20 Ascend into Lebanon and cry, And on Bashan lift up thy voice, And cry all around, For destroyed are all thy lovers. 21 I spake to thee in thy tranquillity, Thou saidst, "I will not hear:" It has been thy manner from thy youth That thou didst not hear my voice. 22 Thy pastors shall the wind consume, And thy lovers, into exile shall they go: Surely ashamed shalt thou then be, And blush for all thy wickedness. 23 Thou hast set thy seat on Lebanon, Thou hast made thy nest among the cedars: How gracious wilt thou be When come on thee shall sorrows, The pain as of one in travail! 24 Live do I, saith Jehovah; Were Coniah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah A sealing ring on my right hand, I would thence pluck thee off: 25 And I will deliver thee Into the hand of those who seek thy life, And into the hand of those whose face thou dreadest, Even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar The king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans: 26 And I will cast thee and thy mother who bare thee Into a foreign land where ye were not born, And there shall ye die; 27 And into the land they set their mind to return, Thither they shall not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised and broken statue?

28 Even because he hath sent to us in Babylon, saying, — "Long is the time, build ye houses and inhabit them; 29 Plant gardens and eat the fruit of them." (Now Zephaniah had read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet:) 30 Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, -- 31 Send to the whole captivity, saying, — Thus saith Jehovah of Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, When I had not sent him, And has made you to trust in falsehood; 32 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, — Lo I will visit Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed; There shall not be to him a man To dwell in the midst of this people; And he shall not see the good, Which I shall do to my people, saith Jehovah; Because he has spoken rebellion against Jehovah. Index of Scripture Commentary Jeremiah [642]20 [660]21 [675]22 [705]23 [746]24 [756]25 [794]26 [819]27 [840]28 [857]29 Index of Hebrew Words and Phrases * 'sr ntty lphnyhm: [952]1 Index of Latin Words and Phrases * Yr hwn y daeth gair yr Arglwydd atto: [1242]1 * y rhai yr arogldarthasant ar eu pennau: [1253]1

[Bible] 28:5. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the Lord: 28:6. And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be brought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may return out of Babylon to this place. 28:7. Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and in the ears of all the people: 28:8. The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the beginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine. 28:9. The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth. 28:10. And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremias the prophet, and broke it. 28:11. And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the nations. 28:12. And Jeremias the prophet went his way. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Hananias the prophet had broken the chain from off the neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying: 28:13. Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron. 28:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover also I have given him the beasts of the earth. 28:15. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.

53 . And thou shalt eat , etc.] Cp. Leviticus 26:29 , Ezekiel 5:10 , and for instances of this horror 2 Kings 6:28 f., Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 4:10 . in the siege and in the straitness ] A Refrain as in Deuteronomy 28:55; Deuteronomy 28:57 . Similarly Jeremiah 19:9 , along with the eating of children as here. Deuteronomy 28:53

(cf. 2 Chronicles 36:9 and 2 Chronicles 36:10 ). Jehoiachin, יהויכין or יויכין ( Ezekiel 1:2 ), i.e., he whom Jehovah fortifies, called יכניהוּ in 1 Chronicles 3:16-17 , and Jeremiah 27:20 ; Jeremiah 28:4 , etc., and כּניהוּ in Jeremiah 22:24 , Jeremiah 22:28 ; Jeremiah 37:1 , probably according to the popular twisting and contraction of the name Jehoiachin, was eighteen years old when he ascended the throne (the eight years of the Chronicles are a slip of the pen), and reigned three months, or, according to the more precise statement of the Chronicles, three months and ten days, in the spirit of his father. Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 19:5-7 ) describes him not only as a young lion, who learned to prey and devoured men, like Jehoahaz, but also affirms of him that he knew their (the deceased men's) widows, i.e., ravished them, and destroyed their cities-that is to say, he did not confine his deeds of violence to individuals, but extended them to all that was left behind by those whom he had murdered, viz., to their families and possessions; and nothing is affirmed in Jeremiah 22:24 and Jeremiah 22:28 respecting his character at variance with this. His mother Nehushta was a daughter of Elnathan, a ruler of the people, or prince, from Jerusalem ( Jeremiah 26:22 ; Jeremiah 36:12 , Jeremiah 36:25 ).

(cf. 2 Chronicles 36:9 and 2 Chronicles 36:10 ). Jehoiachin, יהויכין or יויכין ( Ezekiel 1:2 ), i.e., he whom Jehovah fortifies, called יכניהוּ in 1 Chronicles 3:16-17 , and Jeremiah 27:20 ; Jeremiah 28:4 , etc., and כּניהוּ in Jeremiah 22:24 , Jeremiah 22:28 ; Jeremiah 37:1 , probably according to the popular twisting and contraction of the name Jehoiachin, was eighteen years old when he ascended the throne (the eight years of the Chronicles are a slip of the pen), and reigned three months, or, according to the more precise statement of the Chronicles, three months and ten days, in the spirit of his father. Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 19:5-7 ) describes him not only as a young lion, who learned to prey and devoured men, like Jehoahaz, but also affirms of him that he knew their (the deceased men's) widows, i.e., ravished them, and destroyed their cities-that is to say, he did not confine his deeds of violence to individuals, but extended them to all that was left behind by those whom he had murdered, viz., to their families and possessions; and nothing is affirmed in Jeremiah 22:24 and Jeremiah 22:28 respecting his character at variance with this. His mother Nehushta was a daughter of Elnathan, a ruler of the people, or prince, from Jerusalem ( Jeremiah 26:22 ; Jeremiah 36:12 , Jeremiah 36:25 ).

2 . This month , &c.] The ‘month’ is the one corresponding to our Mar.–Apr., called in J and E ( Exodus 13:4 , Exodus 23:15 , Exodus 34:18 ) and Deuteronomy 16:1 ) ‘Abib,’ and in the later post-exilic writings ( Nehemiah 2:1 , Esther 3:7 ) by its Bab. name, Nisan . P never, like the older pre-exilic writers, calls the months by their Canaanitish or Phoenician names, Abib ( ll.cc. ), Ziv ( 1 Kings 6:1 ; 1 Kings 6:37 ), Ethanim ( ib. 1 Kings 8:2 ), Bul ( ib. 1 Kings 6:38 ); but, as do the late parts of Kings ( 1 Kings 12:32-33 [compiler], 2 Kings 25:1 ; 2 Kings 25:3 ; 2 Kings 25:8 ; 2 Kings 25:25 ; 2 Kings 25:27 ), Jer. ( Jeremiah 1:3 , Jeremiah 28:1 ; Jeremiah 28:17 , Jeremiah 36:22 al. ), Ezek. ( Ezekiel 1:1 , Ezekiel 8:1 al. ), Hag. ( Haggai 1:1 ; Haggai 1:15 , Haggai 2:1 ), Zech. ( Zechariah 1:1 ; Zechariah 1:7 , Zechariah 7:1 ; Zechariah 7:3 ), and Chron., denotes them by numbers ( 1 Chronicles 16:1 ; 1 Chronicles 19:1 ; Leviticus 16:29 , &c.). The old Hebrew year began in autumn ( Exodus 23:16 ; cf. Exodus 34:22 , 1 Samuel 1:20 ); and P here refers the later custom of beginning it in spring (see Jeremiah 36:22 ) to the time of the institution of the Passover in Egypt. The Bab. year began in spring; but whether the Hebrew custom was due to Bab. influence is uncertain. The earliest clear cases of the Heb. year beginning in spring are in the dates quoted above from Kings and Jer.; but 2 Kings 19:29 (= Isaiah 37:30 ) perhaps pre-supposes it.