The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 22:1-30

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EXPOSITION

Jeremiah 22:1-30 and Jeremiah 23:1-40, are connected together by similarity of subject. The temporal and spiritual leaders of the people, who are mainly responsible for the national catastrophe, receive their merited castigation. Jeremiah 23:1-8 of Jeremiah 23:1-40; properly speaking, belong to Jeremiah 22:1-30.; thus we get a well-rounded discourse on the conduct of the kings, with four symmetrical parts or strophes—Jeremiah 22:1-12, Jeremiah 22:13-19, Jeremiah 22:20-30, and Jeremiah 23:1-8. Each begins with a general exhortation or meditation, and continues with a poetical description of the fates, successively, of Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Jehoiachin. The prophecy is concluded, according to the good old rule of Isaiah, by a Messianic promise.

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