Jeremiah 22:19 “He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the g…”

Jeremiah 22:19

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

World English Bible

He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

American Standard Version

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Geneva Bible 1599

He shalbe buryed, as an asse is buryed, euen drawen and cast foorth without the gates of Ierusalem.

Darby Translation

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation

The burial of an ass — he is buried, Dragged and cast out thence to the gates of Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English

They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.

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Cross references

“He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 36:30 Jeremiah 15:3 Jeremiah 36:6 1 Kings 14:10 2 Kings 9:35 2 Chronicles 36:6

Jeremiah 36:30 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.

Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 36:6 · BSB

so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the…

1 Kings 14:10 · BSB

Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is…

2 Kings 9:35 · BSB

But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

2 Chronicles 36:6 · BSB

Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’

20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

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