Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David"
Text: Jeremiah 36:30
A DIVINE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED ON JEHOIAKIM
The LORD pronounced a severe divine judgment against Jehoiakim for his arrogance and defiance. He may be a king, but he is only a mortal!
“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah:
‘He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David,
and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
I will punish him, his family, and his servants for their iniquity;
and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them;
but they did not heed.’
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah,
who wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah
all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire.
And besides, there were added to them many similar words.”
Jeremiah 36:30-32
1. “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: ‘He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night'”
a) Jehoiakim would have no heir after him.
b) His corpse would be cast out into the streets.
i) To decompose in the heat of the day.
ii) To be neglected in the frost of the night.
2. “I will punish him, his family, and his servants for their iniquity;
and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them;
but they did not heed”
a) The iniquity of the following would be judged to the full extent of the law:
i) The king himself.
ii) His family who supported him.
b) His servants who agreed to go along with his acts of iniquity.
i) The doom that God had pronounced. It would befall Judah.
ii) All who lived in Jerusalem would also be doomed.
iii) They had not given heed to the Word of the LORD.
3. “Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah,
who wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah all the words of the book
which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire.
And besides, there were added to them many similar words”
a) Another scroll was given to Baruch to write.
b) He wrote all the words that Jeremiah dictated to him.
i) The words that Jehoiakim had burned.
ii) Many similar words were added in the new scroll.