| 24 A: lThve ſaith che LORD, though Contah the if fon of Jchoiakim Kingof Judah © wererthe ligner up- h | 0:1 My right hand &, yet would I - pluck thee thence. h c By Conzab he meaneth Feborakin, 2 Kings 24 8. whole name
was J-comiah, 1 Chron. 3. 16. ( for all Jsfab's Sons had two Names, and fo had his Grandchild Feconzzb ) here in contempt called Coniah. 4d He faith, that though this Conzab were as dear } to him as his Signet, which every Man keepeth ſafe, yet this } | fi: rot ſecure him itrom civine Vengance.
; | 2s And I will give thee into the hand of them | that Gek thy life e, of chem whoſe face thou feareſt, | even iuto the hand of Nebuchadrez:ar king of Baby- | | /01 83d into the band of the Chaldeans.
'Y e Tir is, into the power of the Challeans and Babylonians, ! | v hom they were airaid of; and juſtly, tor they thirſted after | {heir Blood and Run.
I 26 And1Iwill caft thee out and thy mother that | ' barc thee, into another country where ye were not | 1 born, and there ye ſhall die f. | Wh. f 7-c0n;2h's Mother was Nchufhtan, the Dayghter of E!nzhan ' 1L5
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3o Thus faith the LORD, Write ye this man childleſs 72, a man zhar ſhall not proſper in his days : for no man of his ſeed ſhall proſper, litting upon the
throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
mThe Word tranflated Childleſs is but thrice read in Holy Writ, and by various Inter; rters tranſlated barren, not encre.;- ſing, empy, full of ſorrow, wanting Chil4ren, Sec. It is thought to be interpreted, by the next Words, No Man of his feed ſhall proſper ſitting upon the Throne of D avid, and ruling any more in Jud4h ; for there are ſeven of his Sons named 1 Chron. 3. 17. So that he is ſaid to be Childleſs either becauſe all his Children died before their Father : or (which is moſt probable ) becauſe he had no Child that fate upon theTkrone,or ever had any Rulers place in Ju4ah, but only ſome that lived ina mean condition in Captivity amongſt whom Salatkiel is named, Matth. 3. 12. as a Progenitor of Chriſt.
CHAP. XXIIE
Wo againſt wicked P aflors, the ſcattered Flock ſhall be gathey« ed, Chriſt ſhall rule and ſave them, 1,——8. Againſt falſe Prophets, 9, —— 32. and mockers of the true, 55, -=— 40.
1 * VV? be unto the paſtors that deſtroy and * c::
ſcatter the ſheep of my paſture, faith the LORD #2.
4 There is the like Io againſt the Paſtors denounced, Exek. 34.2. Interpreters judge, that by the Paſtors are to be under- te denounceth the Judgments of God againſt their Ecclefiaſtical Officers : The Civi] Magiſtrates at this time in Jud4h were great Tyrants ; and where- as God had committed his People (whom he calls the Sheep of kis Paſture ) to them in truſt, that they ſhould protect and govern them, and that chey might live 1:nder them golly and peaceable Lives in all Proſperity, they had ated quite contrary to their Truſt, and worried the People like Wolyes, inflead of teeding them like Shepherds. God rook notice of their Oppreſſions, and by the Propher denounceth this 1/ againſt them, to verifie that of Solomon, Eccleſ. 5.8.
2 Therefore thus ſaith the LORD God of Iſrael againlt the paſtors that feed my people b, Ye have ſcattered my flock and driver them away. and have not vilited them c ; Behold, I will viſit upon you
the evil of your doings, ſaith LORD 4.
b God calleth them þjs People, his Flock, the Sheep of bis Paſture, with reſpect to the ancient Covenant which God had made with their Fathers, Abraham, Tſaac, and Jacob. They are ſaid to have fed this People, becauſe it was their Dutr, and the Buſineſs of their Office, fo to have done, though they had tailed in it. c And had done the quite contrary, - ſcattering them by their Acts of Violence and Oppreſſion, and driving them from their places to ſeek ſome more lafe and quiet places of abode > or by cheir,prodigious Wickedneſſes, having been the canſe of their be- ing carried into Captivity, rot viſiting them, that is, taking any due care of their Goo! and Weltare, ſecing what they wanted, and ſupplying them, as good Rulers ought to have done. d For which Neglet God threarneth ts v5//t upon them the Evil of therr Doings. The Hebrew Word figrifierh to vific with a Viſttation of Careand Love, and alfo with a Viſitation of Juſtice and Seve- rity, and is often fo uied in Holy Writ,
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of Hieruſalem, 2 Kirgs 24. 8. Verſe 12. the fulfilling of this Prophecy is recorded ; and it 1s faid, that Jehoiachim the King of Judah went out to the King of Babylon, he and his Mcther, and his ſervants, 8c. fo Verſe 15+ together with eight thouſand Pritoners of the meaner tort, beſides Princes and Nobles.
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will bring them agaia to their folds f, and they ſhall be fruitful, and eacreaſe 7.
2 God purs a difference betwixc thote that were miſled by the
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ple. { ,t ſhould recurn no more,bu: for the people, he here promilech them
a return, at leaſt a remnant of them,when he ſhould have puniſhed the Gous as he ſpeakerh, Zach. 10. 3. f By their Folds, he meaneth Jeruſalem, and other Cities the Towns of Judah which they had formerly inhabited. g Wiere they ſhould once more be in proſperity. He ſpeaks here concerning the return of this people out of the Caprivity of Bzbylon; tho' there be ome that think this Text is primarily to be underſtood, Of the gathering together in one the p-ople of God ſcattered abroad, in and by Chriſt according to the Prophecy of Cataphas, John I1. 52, ;
4 And I will ſet up * ſhepherds over them which ſhall feed them h, and they ſhall fear no more, nor be diſmayed 5, neither ſhall chey be lacking faith the LORD Kk.