So he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon, along with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials and the notables of the land—he deported all as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jeremiah 22:26 - Tree of Life Version So I will cast you out, with your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born—and there will you die. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you will die. American Standard Version (1901) And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. Common English Bible I will banish you and your mother who bore you to a land far from your native soil, and there the two of you will die. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will send you, and your mother who conceived you, into a foreign land, in which you were not born, and there you shall die. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born: and there you shall die. |
So he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon, along with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials and the notables of the land—he deported all as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnatan of Jerusalem.
Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he became king, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from Prison.
So he changed his prison garments, and regularly ate bread in the king’s presence all the days of his life.
As for his allowance, a regular allowance was granted to him by the king, an allotment for each day, all the days of his life.
Behold, strong man, Adonai is about to hurl you headlong, and seize you firmly.
For thus says Adonai: “I am about to hurl the inhabitants out of the land. At this time I will press hard on them so that they will be found out.”
Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”
So I will cast you out of this land into a land that you have not known—neither you nor your fathers—and there you will serve other gods day and night. For I will give you no grace.’
But as for the land where they long to return, they will never return there.”
I will also bring Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, back to this place with all the captives of Judah that went to Babylon”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”
(after Jeconiah the king, the queen-mother, the officers, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen and the smiths, had to leave Jerusalem). The letter was sent
So none of the remnant of Judah entering the land of Egypt to sojourn there will escape or remain, to return to the land of Judah, when they are longing with their soul to return to live there; for none will return except as refugees.”