Jeremiah 22:28
Good News Translation
I said, "Has King Jehoiachin become like a broken jar that is thrown away and that no one wants? Is that why he and his children have been taken into exile to a land they know nothing about?"

New Revised Standard Version
Is this man Coniah a despised broken pot, a vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and cast away in a land that they do not know?

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiachin, you are unwanted like a broken clay pot. So you and your children will be thrown into a country you know nothing about.

New American Bible
Is this man Coniah a thing despised, to be broken, a vessel that no one wants? Why are he and his offspring cast out? why thrown into a land they do not know?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Is.

Coniah.

Jeremiah 22:24 As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.

a despised.

Jeremiah 48:38 Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord.

1 Samuel 3:3-5 Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. . . .

2 Samuel 5:21 And they left there their idols: which David and his men took away.

Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

Hosea 13:15 Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.

Romans 9:21-23 Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? . . .

2 Timothy 2:20,21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour. . . .

his seed.

Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.

1 Chronicles 3:17-24 The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel, . . .

Matthew 1:12-16 And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. . . .

which.

Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Context
A Warning for Coniah
27And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither. 28Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:20
He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Psalm 31:12
I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

Jeremiah 15:1
And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

Jeremiah 17:4
And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.

Jeremiah 22:27
And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.

Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 37:1
Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias the son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the land of Juda.

Jeremiah 48:38
Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord.

Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

Jeremiah 22:27
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