Jeremiah 22:26

I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

In Context

25And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.

27But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:27And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;

2 Kings 25:30And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.

Isaiah 22:17See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

Ezekiel 19:9They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.

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 →

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