Jeremiah 13:18

Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. KING - Jehoiachin or Jeconiah. QUEEN - the queen-mother, who, as the king was not more than 18 years old, held the chief power. Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan, carried away captive with Jehoiakim by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24:8). HUMBLE YOURSELVES - not an exhortation to humble, but a prophecy, Ye shall be humbled, or brought low (Jeremiah 22:26). YOUR PRINCIPALITIES - [ mar'ªshowteeykem (H4761), your greatnesses - i:e., all your dignity and family greatness, from...

The Prophet is here bidden to address his discourse directly to King Jehoiakim and his mother; for the term lady is not to be taken for the queen, the wife of Jehoiakim, but for his mother, who was then his associate in the kingdom, and possessed great authority. (86) And there is no doubt but that God thus intended to rouse more fully the community in general; that is, by shewing that he would not spare, no, not the king nor the queen. But we may hence also learn what has already been observed, that the truth announced by the prophets is superior to all the greatness of the world. For it was said before to Jeremiah, “Reprove mountains and rebuke hills;” (87) and still farther, “Behold, I have set thee over kingdoms and nations, to pull down and to pluck up,” etc., (Jeremiah 1:10) This ought to be carefully noticed; for kings and those who ar

18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin. We cannot alter the natural colour of the skin; and so is it morally impossible to reclaim and reform these people. Sin is the blackness of the soul; it is the discolouring of it; we were shapen in it, so that we cannot get clear of it by any power of our own. But Almighty grace is able to change the Ethiopian's skin. Neither natural depravity, nor strong habits of sin, form an obstacle to the working of God, the new-creating Spirit. The Lord asks of Jerusalem, whether she is determined not be made clean. If any poor slave of sin feels that he could as soon change his nature as master his headstrong lusts, let him not despair; for things impossible to men are possible with God. Let us then se...

Verse Jeremiah 13:18. _SAY UNTO THE KING AND TO THE QUEEN_] Probably Jeconiah and his mother, under whose tutelage, being young when he began to reign, he was left, as is very likely. _SIT DOWN_] Show that ye have _humbled_ yourselves; for your state will be destroyed, and your glorious crown taken from your heads....

THE QUEEN - i. e., “the queen-mother:” the word signifies literally “the great lady.” The king’s mother took precedence of his wives. SIT DOWN - The usual position of slaves. FOR YOUR PRINCIPALITIES ... - Rather, “for the ornaments of your heads, even the crown of your majesty, shall come down.”...

EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal language the ruin especially of the king and the queen-mother, and emphasizing the inveterate corruption which rendered such a blow necessary. The mention of the queen-mother (see Jeremiah 13:18) renders it probable that Jehoiachin is the king under whom the prophecy was composed. It is true that other kings besides Jehoiachin ascended the throne in the lifetime of their mother; but the express and repeated mention of the queen-mother in the account of Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 24:15; comp....

SAY UNTO THE KING, AND TO THE QUEEN,.... Jehoiachin, and his mother Nehushta, as it is generally interpreted by the Jewish commentators, and others; who, with many princes and officers, were carried captive into Babylon, 2 Kings 24:12 or rather Zedekiah and his wife; since the captivity after threatened is a perfect and complete one, which Jehoiachin's was not: HUMBLE YOURSELVES, SIT DOWN; or, "sit down humbled" d; come down from your thrones, and sit in the dust; humble yourselves before the Lord for your own sins, and the sins of the people; in times of general corruption, and which threatens a nation with ruin, it becomes kings and princes to set an example of repentance, humiliation, and reformation; though it may be this is rather a prediction of what would be, that they should descend from their throne, and lose their grandeur, and be in a low and abject condition

CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremiah 13:22) Jeremiah 13:1. The prophet enacts a sign, that of the linen girdle. After he had put on the girdle, he was told to hide it in a hole of the rock of the Euphrates. After many days, he was commanded to dig for the girdle. It was found marred and profitable for nothing. Was this only a vision, or did the prophet actually make the long journey to the Euphrates and then repeat it after many

JEREMIAH 13:18 F. A DIRGE ON THE DOOM OF JEHOIACHIN AND HIS MOTHER (Nehushta, 2 Kings 24:8; 2 Kings 24:15), _c._ 597. Jeremiah 13:18 should read, Say ye (LXX) to the king and the queen-mother, sit ye down low (_mg.),_ for come down from your head (VSS) is your beautiful crown (_mg.)._ The queen-mother is more important than the queen in an Oriental court (_cf._ Jeremiah 22:26). THE SOUTH denotes a particular district, the Negeb (p. 32), in the south of Judah ...

THE KING AND TO THE QUEEN. This was Jehoiachin, and the queen-mother. See 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15. Jehoiachin was only eighteen, so that the queen-dowager would hold. position of some influence (490, or 489 B.C.) PRINCIPALITIES. head-gear....