Bible Strands
Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah pronounces this oracle concerning King Coniah to Judah and the land, immediately following the declaration that Coniah will never return to the homeland he longs for.
The words — The Hebrew terms נִבְזֶה (niv.Zeh), meaning despised, and נָפ֗וּץ (na.Futz), meaning smashed, directly describe the pot and vessel in the rhetorical question.
The thread — The discarded vessel motif appears in Psalms 31:12, Hosea 8:8, and Jeremiah 48:38 to depict national abandonment and divine judgment.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to accept that Coniah and his descendants face irreversible exile and social rejection, with no conditional promise of return attached to this pronouncement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Cross-references
- Psalms 31:12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
- Jeremiah 48:38 On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 22:30 This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
- 1 Samuel 5:3 When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
- 2 Samuel 5:21 There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
- 1 Chronicles 3:17 The descendants of Jeconiah the captive: Shealtiel his son,
- Jeremiah 14:18 If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
- Jeremiah 15:1 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
- Jeremiah 17:4 And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”