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Jeremiah 22 denies Jehoiachin any son on the throne of David. A later editor likely copied that sentence to also describe his father Jehoiakim in Jeremiah 36, cutting off the Davidic line before its last kings had even reigned.
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Jeremiah 22:30
Hebrew Bible
29 O Land, land, land of Judah! Listen to the Lord’s message.” 30 The Lord says,“Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah.”
Jeremiah 36:30
Hebrew Bible
29 Tell King Jehoiakim of Judah, ‘The Lord says, “You burned the scroll. You asked Jeremiah, ‘How dare you write in this scroll that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and wipe out all the people and animals on it?’” 30 So the Lord says concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, “None of his line will occupy the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to be exposed to scorching heat by day and frost by night. 31 I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem and the people of Judah, all the disaster that I told them about and that they ignored.”’”
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"... This proclamation was not fulfilled. Further Davidides followed Jehoiakim on the Judahite royal throne for almost two decades until the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 b.c.e. 1 Chronicles 3:17–21 even reports of further descendants for Jehoiachin, Davidides, into the Persian period. Contrary to some suggestions, the fact that Jeremiah 36:30 was not fulfilled is not evidence for the composition of the text during the reign of Jehoiakim, whose historical error would then be explained by lack of knowledge about what later actually took place. The specific perspective of Jeremiah 36:30 instead arose from inner-biblical exegesis. The announcement of Jeremiah 36:30 combines two earlier prophetic words from Jeremiah 22:18–19 and 22:30. These announce a shameful burial for Jehoiakim and deny any descendants for Jehoiachin. Jeremiah 36:30 applies them both to Jehoiakim and places the end of the Davidic dynasty already in the fourth or, as the case may be, the fifth year of Jehoiakim for theological rather than historical reasons. ..."
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