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Coniah and his mother walk into exile, his signet ring visible as he looks down.
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Jeremiah 22:24-30

Coniah and the signet

The House of the Kings · Jeremiah 22

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24As I live, declares Yahweh, even if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, even from there I would tear you off.

25And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those before whom you are afraid, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26And I will hurl you and your mother who gave birth to you into another land, where you were not born, and there you will die.

27But to the land to which they lift up their soul to return, there they will not return.

28Is this man Coniah a despised, broken vessel, or a vessel in which there is no delight? Why have he and his offspring been hurled out and cast into a land that they did not know?

29Land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh.

30Thus says Yahweh: Write this man down as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for none of his offspring will prosper to sit on the throne of David and rule again in Judah.

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