Jeremiah 36:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

He shall have none to sit upon the throne - fulfilled (2 Kings 24:8, etc; 2 Kings 25:1-30.) He had successors, but not directly of his posterity, except his son Jeconiah, whose three months reign is counted as nothing: Zedekiah was not son, but uncle of Jeconiah, and was raised to the throne in contempt of him and his father Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 22:30).

His dead body shall be cast out. - (Jeremiah 22:18-19).

In the day to the heat ... in the night to the frost. There are often these variations of temperature in the East between night and day (Genesis 31:40)

Jeremiah 36:30

30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.