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Jeremiah 22:27

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Jehoiachin, you will want to come back to your land, but you will never be allowed to come back.”

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Not one of the few survivors of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape my punishment. None of them will survive to come back to Judah. They want to come back to Judah and live there. But not one of them will go back to Judah, except a few people who escape.’”

This is what the Lord says about Jehoahaz son of Josiah, who became king of Judah after his father Josiah died: “Jehoahaz has gone away from Jerusalem. He will never return.

My Lord, I put my life in your hands. I am your servant, so make me happy.

I will throw you and your mother into another country where neither of you was born. You and your mother will die in that country.

Jehoiachin is like a broken pot that someone threw away. He is like a pot that no one wants. Why will Jehoiachin and his children be thrown out and sent away into a foreign land?

I will also bring the king of Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, back to this place. And I will bring back all the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar forced to leave their homes and go to Babylon,’ says the Lord. ‘So I will break the yoke that the king of Babylon put on the people of Judah.’”

“This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘I showed my anger against Jerusalem. I punished the people who lived there. In the same way I will show my anger against everyone who goes to Egypt. People will use you as an example when they ask for bad things to happen to other people. You will become like a curse word. People will be ashamed of you, and they will insult you. And you will never see Judah again.’

Don’t cry for the king who has died. Don’t cry for him. But cry very hard for the king who must leave this place. Cry for him because he will never return or see his homeland again.

Jehoahaz will die in the place where the Egyptians have taken him, and he will not see this land again.”




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