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Jeremiah 22:28

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Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

KJV

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

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This verse in Jeremiah 22

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 28.) Is that man, Chonias (also known as Jechonias), like a broken and useless clay pot? Is he a vessel without any pleasure or usefulness? Why are he and his descendants rejected and thrown onto the ground that they do not know? Because of what we have said, Symmachus translated it as: Is he a vessel for trash, or worthless and discarded rubbish? In the Septuagint, there is nothing on this, but this is the only interpretation: Jechonias is dishonored, like a vessel in which there is no usefulness.

This site's exposition

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol

on Jeremiah 22:28-30

The rhetorical questions treat the king as an object already discarded, a broken idol, a vessel no one wants, and the earth itself is called three times to witness the sentence that follows: write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, no seed of his sitting upon the throne of David. Coniah in fact had descendants, Shealtiel and Zerubbabel named at 1 Chronicles 3:17-19, so the commentators read childless as a throne-curse rather than a literal one, no son of his ever reigning again in Jerusalem. The line carries weight for the New Testament genealogies: Matthew traces Jesus' legal descent through Jeconiah by way of Joseph, while Luke's line is commonly read as running through Mary and Nathan instead, a way of tracing Christ's kingship through David without inheriting this particular curse. The readings are named as positions held by different writers, not settled by the text itself.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Luke the real pedigree, from Mary, the real parent, through Nathan, brother of Solomon, upwards (Lu 3:31). no man of his seed . . . upon the throne--This explains the sense in which "childless" is used. Though the succession to the throne failed in his line, still the promise to David (Ps 89:30-37) was revived in Zerubbabel and consummated in Christ.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הַעֶ֨צֶב¿ a pot

    haetzevH6089 →

  • נִבְזֶ֜הdespised

    nivzehH959 →

  • נָפ֗וּץsmashed

    nafutzH5310 →22 times

  • הָאִ֤ישׁ[is] the man

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • הַזֶּה֙<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • כָּנְיָ֔הוּConiah

    kaneyahuH3659 →3 times

  • אִ֨ם־or?

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • כְּלִ֔יa vessel

    keliH3627 →325 times

  • אֵ֥ין[which] there not

    ʾeinH369 →789 times

  • חֵ֖פֶץ[is] pleasure

    chefetzH2656 →

  • בּ֑וֹin <the> it

    bo

  • מַדּ֤וּעַwhy?

    madua'H4069 →72 times

  • הֽוּטֲלוּ֙have they been thrown out

    hutaluH2904 →14 times

  • ה֣וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְזַרְע֔וֹand offspring his

    vezaroH2233 →229 times

  • וְהֻ֨שְׁלְכ֔וּand have they been thrown?

    vehushlekhuH7993 →125 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָדָֽעוּ׃they knew

    yadauH3045 →945 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.6 worksHosea 8:8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.6 worksJeremiah 48:38On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.5 works2 Chronicles 21:20Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.4 worksRomans 9:21Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?4 worksJeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 16:13So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’3 works1 Kings 9:8And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’3 works2 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.3 worksJeremiah 27:20which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.3 worksJeremiah 37:1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.3 works2 Samuel 5:21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.2 worksMatthew 1:12–16After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,2 works1 Samuel 5:3–5When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.2 works2 Timothy 2:20–21A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.2 worksHosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.2 worksJeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”2 worksJeremiah 17:4And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 31:12

    I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 30:14

      It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a…

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Romans 9:21–22

      Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 88:4–5

      I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

    • Psalms 119:83

      Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 22:30

    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 36:30

      Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by…

    • Psalms 94:20

      Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?

  • Through

    Hosea 8:8

    Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

    it leads to

    • 2 Timothy 2:20–21

      A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 51:34

      “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies…

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 22 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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