Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"So I will cast you out"
Text: Jeremiah 22:26
PRESERVING THE ROYAL BLOODLINE
Kings of old guarded their thrones jealously. They will do all they can to preserve the royal line, so that the throne would continue indefinitely. In Israel, this plan failed miserably. There were many dynasties. All were fairly short-lived! Judah managed to retain the line of David. But the quality of the kings was of doubtful worth!
“‘As I live,’ says the LORD,
‘though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;
and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life,
and into the hand of those whose face you fear—
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans.
So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you,
into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.
But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.'”
Jeremiah 22:24-27
1. “‘As I live,’ says the LORD”
a) This was an oath.
b) The LORD swore a solemn oath.
2. “Though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off”
a) The kings of Judah were likened to a signet ring of God.
b) They were supposed to bear His authority and power.
c) Coniah was the son of Jehoiakim.
d) His other name was “Jehoiachin” (2 Kings 24:8-12).
e) God would pluck him off His hand.
3. “And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans”
a) Jehoiachin (Coniah) would be delivered to the Babylonians.
b) Nebuchadnezzar came against the city of Jerusalem (2 Kings 24:10-12).
c) Coniah was captured by Nebuchadnezzar.
4. “So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die. But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return”
a) This was the prophetic word proclaimed.
b) Coniah would be cast out with his mother.
c) He and his royal family would die in exile in Babylon.
d) This prophecy was fulfilled and recorded in 2 Kings 24:8-12.
e) Coniah was described candidly as doing evil.
“Jehoiachin (Coniah) was eighteen years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father had done.”
2 Kings 24:8-9