Jeremiah 13:18 f. A Dirge on the Doom of Jehoiachin and his Mother (Nehushta, 2 Kings 24:8; 2 Kings 24:15), c. 597.
Jeremiah 13:18 should read, Say ye (LXX) to the king and the queen-mother, sit ye down low (mg.), for come down from your head (VSS) is your beautiful crown (mg.). The queen-mother is more important than the queen in an Oriental court (cf. Jeremiah 22:26). the South denotes a particular district, the Negeb (p. 32), in the south of Judah (Joshua 15:21-32).