2 Chronicles 36:6

36:6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, 1  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away 2  to Babylon.

Jeremiah 22:18-19

22:18 So 3  the Lord has this to say about Josiah’s son, King Jehoiakim of Judah:

People will not mourn for him, saying,

“This makes me sad, my brother!

This makes me sad, my sister!”

They will not mourn for him, saying,

“Poor, poor lord! Poor, poor majesty!” 4 

22:19 He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey.

His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’” 5 

Jeremiah 36:30-31

36:30 So the Lord says concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, “None of his line will occupy the throne of David. 6  His dead body will be thrown out to be exposed to scorching heat by day and frost by night. 7  36:31 I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. 8  I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem, 9  and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.”’” 10 

1 tn Heb “came up against him.”

2 tn Heb “to carry him away.”

3 sn This is the regular way of introducing the announcement of judgment after an indictment of crimes. See, e.g., Isa 5:13, 14; Jer 23:2.

4 tn The translation follows the majority of scholars who think that the address of brother and sister are the address of the mourners to one another, lamenting their loss. Some scholars feel that all four terms are parallel and represent the relation that the king had metaphorically to his subjects; i.e., he was not only Lord and Majesty to them but like a sister or a brother. In that case something like: “How sad it is for the one who was like a brother to us! How sad it is for the one who was like a sister to us.” This makes for poor poetry and is not very likely. The lover can call his bride sister in Song of Solomon (Song 4:9, 10) but there are no documented examples of a subject ever speaking of a king in this way in Israel or the ancient Near East.

5 sn A similar judgment against this ungodly king is pronounced by Jeremiah in 36:30. According to 2 Chr 36:6 he was bound over to be taken captive to Babylon but apparently died before he got there. According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Nebuchadnezzar ordered his body thrown outside the wall in fulfillment of this judgment. The Bible itself, however, does not tell us that.

6 sn This prophesy was not “totally” fulfilled because his son Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) did occupy the throne for three months (2 Kgs 23:8). However, his rule was negligible and after his capitulation and exile to Babylon, he himself was promised that neither he nor his successors would occupy the throne of David (cf. Jer 22:30; and see the study notes on 22:24, 30).

7 sn Compare the more poetic prophecy in Jer 22:18-19 and see the study note on 22:19.

8 tn Heb “for their iniquity.”

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10 tn Heb “all the disaster which I spoke against them and they did not listen [or obey].”