Address to the king and the queen-mother

The highest shall be brought low, and the land with its cities emptied by universal captivity.

Graf and Du. make the king to be Jehoiakim and thus the queen-mother Zebidah (2 Kings 23:36). Most however take the utterance as belonging to the three months" reign of his successor, Jehoiachin, whose mother, Nehushta, is referred to in 2 Kings 24:8; 2Ki 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15. The prominence attached to the queen-mother by Eastern custom would be in that case enhanced by the king's youth. Cp. Jeremiah 22:26.

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