That is, they shall never come again to Jerusalem; though they be fond of it as their native country, and may promise themselves such favours from the king of Babylon, yet there shall no such thing be their portion.
CONCERNING THE KINGS OF JUDAH (22:1-23:8) CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The message in the house of the king of Judah (Jeremiah 22:1) _ 2. Touching Shallum, the King of Judah (Jeremiah 22:11) 3. Concerning Jeho...
JEREMIAH 22:1 TO JEREMIAH 23:8. This section contains several distinct Jeremianic prophecies, relating to contemporary kings of Judah; they have been editorially collected, probably with some expansio...
DESIRE TO RETURN. are lifting up their soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...
_their soul longeth_ For mg. _they lift up their soul_cp. Jeremiah 44:14; Deuteronomy 24:15; Hosea 4:8. The soul was considered the seat of desire....
See introd. summary to section. Jeremiah 22:20 have no direct connexion with those that follow and seem to have been introduced here on account of the reference to the rulers ("shepherds") in Jeremiah...
The judgement on Jehoiachin. This part of the sub-section may also be subdivided, inasmuch as in 24 27 he has yet to be taken to Babylon, while in 28 30 that event is spoken of as in the past. The ver...
WHEREUNTO THEY DESIRE— _To which they have set their hearts,_ or _souls, to return._...
3. _The fate of Jehoiachin_ (Jeremiah 22:24-30) TRANSLATION (24) As I live (oracle of the LORD), even if Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah was a signet upon My right hand, I would pull you off; ...
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. THEY - Coniah and his mother. He passes from the second person () to the third person here, to express the alienatio...
1-9. Call to amendment of life....
WHEREUNTO THEY DESIRE TO RETURN. — The English expresses the sense, but lacks the poetic force, of the Hebrew, _to which they lift up their souls to return,_ yearning thitherward with the longing of u...
וְ עַל ־הָ אָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁר ־הֵ֛ם מְנַשְּׂאִ֥ים
CHAPTER VII JEHOIACHIN Jeremiah 22:20 "A despised broken vessel."- Jeremiah 22:28 "A young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey, he...
The message Jeremiah gave the deputation was not enough. He was commanded to go to the house of the king. This he did, and what he there said occupies the succeeding Chapter s up to and including chap...
_Mind; ardently desiring and expecting to be liberated. (Calmet)_...
We have here a similar prediction against Coniah: and a very awful one it is. He is to be made a captive, and to die in a foreign land, even in a land of all others he most dreaded and hated. And what...
The Prophet again changes the person, and yet not inelegantly, for he speaks here as one indignant, and after having addressed a few words to King Jeconiah, he turns aside from him and declares what G...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
BUT TO THE LAND WHEREUNTO THEY DESIRE TO RETURN,.... Or, "lift up their soul to return" c: either by making supplication to God, for it, Psalms 25:1; or buoying up themselves with vain hopes, founded...
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. Ver. 27. _But to the land that they desire to return._] Heb., Which they lift up their soul to _quam avent totaque anim...
_As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah were the signet_, or, rather, _the ring, upon my right hand_ By Coniah he means Jehoiachin, whose name was Jeconiah, 1 Chronicles 3:16, (for all Josiah's sons...
PROPHECIES RELATING TO SHALLUM, JEHOIKIM, AND JEHOIACHIN...
But to the land whereunto they, Coniah and his mother, DESIRE TO RETURN, THITHER SHALL THEY NOT RETURN. By the change to the third person these two were put out of sight, as unworthy to be addressed d...
DESIRE: _ Heb._ lift up their mind...
20-30 The Jewish state is described under a threefold character. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety. Very fearful on alarm of trouble. Very much cast down under pressure of trouble. Many never...
Jeremiah 22:27 land H776 desire H5375 (H8764) (H8676) H5315 return H7725 (H8800) return H7725 ...
THE INADEQUACY OF ALL THE CURRENT SONS OF DAVID TO DELIVER JUDAH (JEREMIAH 22:10). Having dealt with Zedekiah, Nebuchadrezzar'a appointee, in the opening passage of the subsection, and having shown th...
THE INADEQUACY OF JEHOIACHIN (JECHONIAH, CONIAH) (JEREMIAH 22:20). Finally Jeremiah brings out the unsuitability of Jehoiachin (Jechoniah), Jehoiakim's son, to be the promised coming son of David who...
CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah, concluded. The King exhorted to execute judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Shallum, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: God never casts one off...
Jeremiah 22:10. _Weep not for the dead,_ as you have wept bitterly for king Josiah, but weep for him who goes into captivity, for he shall return no more. Jeremiah 22:11. _Shallum the son of Josiah._...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign; contemporary with chap. 22. See Notes. Dr. _Payne Smith_ places this prophecy prior to Jehoiakim’s manifestatio...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 22:1 and Jeremiah 23:1, are connected together by similarity of subject. The temporal and spiritual leaders of the people, who are mainly responsible for the national catastrophe,...
Now the Lord commanded Jeremiah to go down to the king's house and speak there at the king's house this word. The other, it was a message sent back to the king. Now go on down to his house and speak t...
2 Kings 25:27; Jeremiah 22:11; Jeremiah 44:14; Jeremiah 52:31;...