◄ Jeremiah 22:19 ►
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Good News Translation
With the funeral honors of a donkey, he will be dragged away and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates."

New Revised Standard Version
With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried— dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
You will be given a burial fit for a donkey; your body will be dragged outside the city gates and tossed in the dirt. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
The burial of a donkey he shall be given, dragged forth and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15:3 And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

Jeremiah 36:6,30 Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people in the house of the Lord on the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities: . . .

1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

1 Kings 21:23,24 And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel. . . .

2 Kings 9:35 And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands.

2 Chronicles 36:6 Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon.

Context
A Warning about Jehoiakim
…18Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and, Alas, sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord, or, Alas, the noble one. 19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.20Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan, and cry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed.…
Cross References
1 Kings 21:23
And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.

1 Kings 21:24
If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.

2 Kings 23:36
Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida, the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma.

2 Kings 24:6
And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of Juda: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night.

Jeremiah 22:18
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