Jeremiah 22:24
Hebrew Bible
22 My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind! Your allies will go into captivity. Then you will certainly be disgraced and put to shame because of all the wickedness you have done. 23 You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But O how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.” 24 The Lord says, “As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah, king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be a signet rign on my right hand.43 Indeed, I will take that right away from you. 25 I will hand you over to those who want to take your life and of whom you are afraid. I will hand you over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his Babylonian soldiers. 26 I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Haggai 2:23
Hebrew Bible
21 “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth. 22 I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another. 23 On that day,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Haggai 2:23 presents a promise to Zerubbabel, the governor of the Persian province Yehud and grandson of the former Judean king Jehoiachin. Remarkably, this promise given to a Davidian is significantly determined by motifs of the older royal theology. 5 Like the former Davidic kings Zerubbabel is called YHWH’s servant (דבע), and like the former Davidic kings Zerubbabel is said to be chosen by YHWH (רחב). Even more remarkable is the promise to Zerubbabel that he will be like a signet ring (םתוח). As commonly seen, this statement alludes to Jeremiah 22:24–25 saying to Jehoiachin, Zerubbabel’s grandfather, that even if he would be a signet ring on YHWH’s right hand, he would be torn off and given into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. Jeremiah 22:24–25 thus, through the image of the signet ring, announces the rejection of king Jehoiachin and, by doing so, announces nothing less than the end of the Davidic rule ..."
Wöhrle, Jakob
"On the Way to Hierocracy: Secular and Priestly Rule in the Books of Haggai and Zechariah" in Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia, and Jutta Krispenz (eds.) Priests and Cults in the Book of the Twelve
(pp. 173-189) Society of Biblical Literature, 2016
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