Jeremiah - 22:26



26 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

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Explanation and meaning of Jeremiah 22:26.

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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.
And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die:
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.
And I will send you, and your mother who conceived you, into a foreign land, in which you were not born, and there you shall die.
Et projiciam to et matrem tuam quae genuit to in terram alienam, in qua non estis geniti, et illic moriemini.

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Historical Commentaries

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Here, again, the Prophet confirms what he had said of the severe vengeance which God would take on Jeconiah. And though he was in his thirty-seventh year brought out of prison, and admitted unto the royal table, among other princes, he yet died in exile; and perhaps it would have been better for him to continue in prison till his death than to have been corrupted by allurements when he became one of the princes, for he thus defiled himself. However this may have been, he died in exile together with his mother Nehusta. The Prophet then enhanced the grievousness of his punishment by saying, I will cause thee to migrate, or cast thee out, [1] and thy mother who bare thee. It is added, for the sake of indignity, that the mother of the king would be led captive with him; for the female sex is often spared, and she was also advanced in years. But God executed upon her his judgment, because she was his associate in impiety: "I will remove you," he says, "into foreign lands, in which ye were not born, and there ye shall die."

Footnotes

1 - The word is strong; it means to toss, to hurl, violently to cast forth, to throw with force, as one throws a missile weapon. See 1 Samuel 28:11. The "mittam" of the Vulg. is too weak; the "aporripso" of the Sept. is more suitable. -- Ed

Mother - See Jeremiah 13:18. It was her relationship, not to the dead king, but to the king regnant, which made her powerful.

I will cast thee out, and thy mother - See all this fulfilled, 2-Kings 24:12, 2-Kings 24:13. All were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into captivity together.

And I will cast thee out,.... Out of his palace, out of the city of Jerusalem, and out of the land of Judea:
and thy mother that bare thee; who very probably was a bad woman, and had brought up her son in an evil way, and had led him on and encouraged him in it, by her own example, and had been a partner with him in his sins: her name was Nehushta, a daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem; and as it was here predicted of her, so it was accomplished, 2-Kings 24:8; it is very likely Jeconiah had no children before the captivity, since no mention is made of them, only of his mother that was cast out with him:
into another country, where ye were not born; the land of Chaldea, which was not the native place neither of him nor his mother; being both, as it seems probable, horn in Jerusalem, or however in Judea:
and there shall ye die; both he and his mother; and so the Arabic version expresses it, "and there shall ye both die"; as no doubt they did, though we have no particular account of their death; as for Jeconiah, he lived a long time in captivity; it was in the "thirty seventh" year of his captivity that Evilmerodach king of Babylon showed favour to him above all the captive kings that were with him, and continued it to his death; but how long after that was is not known; see Jeremiah 52:31.

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