Jeremiah 22:26

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

Majority Standard Bible

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

25In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.

27You will never return to the land for which you long.”

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:27On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

2 Kings 25:30And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

Isaiah 22:17Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,

Ezekiel 19:9With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard 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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