Jeremiah 22:25

25 I would hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you dread, even Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar and his army.

Jeremiah 22:25 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 22:25

And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy
life
Cruel and bloodthirsty enemies, whom nothing would satisfy but his life; such were the persons following: and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest:
being a terrible savage people, to be dreaded both for their number and their cruelty; a strange change this, to be removed out of the hand of God into the hand of such an enemy; even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
(See Gill on Jeremiah 21:2); and into the hand of the Chaldeans:
who were the merciless and formidable people before mentioned: and this was fulfilled within three months after Jeconiah or Jehoiachin began to reign, and when he was but eighteen years of age, ( 2 Kings 24:8 2 Kings 24:10-12 ) .

Jeremiah 22:25 In-Context

23 You who live in Lebanon, nestled in cedar, who will pity you when you are overcome in pain, like that of childbirth?

24 As surely as I live, declares the LORD, even if Coniah, King Jehoiakim's son from Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still remove you from there.

25 I would hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you dread, even Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar and his army.

26 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.

27 You will never return to the land you long to go back to.

Footnotes

• [a] Or the Babylonians