Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 22:28
Verse Jeremiah 22:28. Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol?] These are probably the exclamations of the people, when they heard those solemn denunciations against their king and their country.
Verse Jeremiah 22:28. Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol?] These are probably the exclamations of the people, when they heard those solemn denunciations against their king and their country.
IDOL - Rather, vessel. Is Coniah a mere piece of common earthenware in which the potter has no pleasure, and therefore breaks it? It is a lamentation over Jehoiachin’s hard fate, and that of his seed....
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...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
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...
_vessel_ mg. _pot_, but rather, "a terra-cotta figurine," _Encycl. Bibl_. III. 3818, quoted by Dr. _wherein is no pleasure_ For the expression cp. Jeremiah 48:38; Hosea 8:8....
IS THIS MAN CONIAH A DESPISED BROKEN IDOL?— _Potsherd?_ Houbigant, who renders the latter clause, _that they have cast out him and his seed into a land,_ &c. "Would any one have thought that this man,...
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; ...
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? IS THIS MAN CONIAH A DE...
A lament over Jehoiachin's fate. IDOL] RV 'vessel,' a piece of earthenware cast out as useless....
1-9. Call to amendment of life....
IS THIS MAN CONIAH A DESPISED BROKEN IDOL? — Better, _a broken piece of handiwork._ The word is not the same as that elsewhere rendered “idol,” though connected with it, and the imagery which underlie...
הַ עֶ֨צֶב נִבְזֶ֜ה נָפ֗וּץ הָ אִ֤ישׁ הַ
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...
_Jechonias. Protestants, "Koniah, a despised broken idol? is he," &c. Alexandrian Septuagint, "Jechonias has been dishonoured as a vessel, or which there is no need, for he hath been snatched and cast...
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...
As the Prophet was hardly able to convince the Jews of what he had foretold, he confirms the same thing; but he speaks here as of what was incredible. He assumes the character of one greatly wondering...
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...
[IS] THIS MAN CONIAH A DESPISED BROKEN IDOL?.... Or like an idol that is nothing in the world, and like a broken one, that, whatever worship before was paid to it, has now none at all, but is despised...
Jeremiah 22:28 [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? Ver....
_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...
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? so the people are represented as asking. IS HE A VESSEL WHEREIN IS NO PLEASURE? with whom neither God nor men were pleased. WHEREFORE ARE THEY CAST OUT, HE A...
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...
The prophet either speaketh this in the person of God. or of the people, who are here brought in, affirming that this prince, who was the idol of the people, was now, through the just judgment of God,...
Jeremiah 22:28 man H376 Coniah H3659 despised H959 (H8737) broken H5310 (H8803) vessel H3627 pleasure H2656 out...
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...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 3:17; 1 Samuel 5:3; 2 Samuel 5:21; 2 Timothy 2:20;...
Is this — The prophet speaks this in the person of God, affirming that this prince, who was the idol of the people, was now become like a broken idol. A vessel — So cracked, or so tainted, that they c...