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Jeremiah 22:20-30

King James Version (KJV)

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20. Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21. I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22. The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23. O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! 24. [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 25. And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26. And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27. But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 28. [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? 29. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. 30. Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Jeremiah 22:20-30 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 22:20

Theological / Devotional

Go up to Lebanon. The date of this message (vs. 20-30) cannot be established positively, yet vs. 24-26 indicate that the message was given during the short reign of Jehoiachin, 597 B.C., and was addressed to that king. The mountains of Lebanon and Bashan overlooked the route of the Babylonians, hence an appropriate place upon which to bewail Judah’s calamities.

The passages. Or, “Abarim,” a proper name for that part of the mountainous range south of Gilead and Bashan (see Num. 27:12; 33:47; Deut. 32:49).

All thy lovers. Those nations, such as the Assyrians and the Egyptians, with whom Judah had entered into alliance (2 Kings 16:7-9; cf. Eze. 23:5, 9; see on Jer. 4:30). The climax of this destruction occurred when Pharaoh-Necho’s army was overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish (Jer. 46:2).

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