Jeremiah 22:19 - Exposition

Jehoiakim's miserable death, without even the honor of burial. The prediction is repeated in Jeremiah 36:30 , where the statement is made in plain language. At first sight it appears to conflict with 2 Kings 24:6 , "So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead;" but it is only appearance, and when we remember that the complete formula for describing the natural death of a king of Judah is, "slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David" ( 1 Kings 14:31 ; 1 Kings 15:24 ; 1 Kings 22:50 ; 2 Kings 8:24 ; 2 Kings 15:7 , 2 Kings 15:38 ; 2 Kings 16:20 ), and that the phrase, "slept with his fathers," is used of Ahab, who fell on the field of battle ( 1 Kings 22:40 ), we are naturally led to the conjecture that Jehoiakim did not die a natural death, but fell in battle in some sally made by the besieged. Buried with the burial of an ass ; i.e. cast out unburied. Beyond the gates; rather, far from the gates .