Thus saith the Lord, write ye this man
childless
That is, Coniah, or Jeconiah; who though he had children in the
captivity, yet they died in it, or however never succeeded him in
the throne. This, to show the certainty of the thing, the Lord
would have written. The speech is directed, as some think, to the
angels, or to the prophets; though the words may be rendered
impersonally, "let this man be written childless", it may be set
down, and taken for a sure and certain thing, as though it was
written with a pen of iron, that he shall be alone, and die
without children, and have none to reign after him; a man
[that] shall not prosper in his days;
he sat but three months and ten days upon the throne, and all the
rest of his days he lived in captivity, ( 2 Chronicles
36:9 ) ; so that he was a very unfortunate prince; for
no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of
David,
and ruling any more in Judah;
none of them were so prosperous and happy as to arrive to the
royal dignity, or to sit on the throne of David, and be kings of
Judah. Here ended the race of kings of the house of David, until
the King Messiah came; for though there were of his line that
were governors of Judah, as Zerubbabel, yet not kings. Moreover,
Jeconiah was the last of the house of David in the line of
Solomon. Salathiel, of whom was Zerubbabel governor of Judah, was
the son of Neri, who descended from Nathan the son of David; see
( Luke 3:29
Luke 3:31 ) ,
compared with ( Matthew 1:12
) ; and (See Gill on Luke
3:29) and (See Gill on Luke
3:31) and (See Gill on Matthew
1:12).