Jeremiah 22:30
Thus says LORD: Write ye this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days. For no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of LORD.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 3:16And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute?
Jeremiah 36:30Therefore thus says LORD concerning 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.
Luke 1:32This man will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 22:21-30
The Desolation of Judah; The Doom of Jeconiah. ( b. c. 590.) 20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,… Read the whole commentary →