30Thus 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: …
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-30)This prophecy seems to have been calculated for the ungracious inglorious reign of Jeconiah, or Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim, who succeeded him in the government, reigned but three months, and was then carried captive to Babylon, where he lived many years, Jer. 52:31. We have, in these verses, a prophecy, I. Of the desolations of the kingdom, which were now hastening on apace, Jer. 22:20-23. J…
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