Week 29 Jeremiah 22
Back in May I looked at the fifteen kings of Judah who reigned after Solomon. The kings were: Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram Ahaziah Joash Amaziah Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon & Josiah.
My goal was to rate them on a Quality of King Scale to see who was the best (I figured it was Josiah) and who was the worst (Amon). But I cheated a bit because Josiah was not actually the last king of Judah. There were four more after him. And I was reminded about my cheat when I saw these three subtitles in Jeremiah 22:
A Message about Jehoahaz
A Message about Jehoiakim
A Message for Jehoiachin
(A fourth subtitle – A Message for Zedekiah – was missing since he wasn’t mentioned until chapter 24.)
So anyway a complete list of kings would have included these last four ‘let’s-pretend’ kings.
I looked at Jeremiah’s comments about them:
Jehoahaz: he will never return (to Jerusalem). He will die in a distant land
Jehoiakim: his family will not weep for him when he dies…He will be buried like a dead donkey
Jehoiachin: he will die in a foreign land…His life will amount to nothing
Zedekiah: he will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed.
I didn’t rate these four on my King Scale. But if I had they’d likely be at or near the very bottom.
Note: posts on the fifteen kings are at May 24-31 2023. Quotes from Jeremiah 22:11-12 18-19 26 29 24:9 (NLT)