I will hurl you and your mother who gave birth to you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will cast you out with your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
- KJV 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.
- BSB I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
- NKJV So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.
- NLT I will expel you and your mother from this land, and you will die in a foreign country, not in your native land.
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Quick answer
Coniah and his mother will be exiled to a foreign land where they will die. They will never see their homeland again.
Overview
God announces that the king and the queen mother will be cast into a country not their own and die there in exile. The mention of his mother reflects the influential role of the queen mother in Judah's court. The sentence of dying far from the land of promise underscores the severity of the judgment and the grievous loss of covenant inheritance for the royal house.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 2 Kgs 24:15He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- Isa 22:17Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
- 2 Kgs 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
- Jer 15:2–4It shall happen, when they tell you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.”’
- 2 Chr 36:9–10Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- Ezek 19:9–14They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
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