“Therefore thus says Yahweh
Concerning King Jehoiakim
Of Judah.
‘He shall have no one
To sit upon the throne
Of David.
His dead body
Shall be cast out
To the heat
By day
As well as the frost
By night.
I will punish him,
His offspring,
As well as his servants
For their iniquity.
I will bring
On them,
On the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
On the people of Judah,
All the disasters
With which I have threatened them.
But they would not hear.’”
Yahweh delivered his judgment against King Jehoiakim and his royal family. No one in his family will ever sit on the throne of David. Actually, at his death, his son Coniah, King Jehoiachin ruled for a couple of months before King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon put his uncle King Zedekiah on the throne in 598 BCE. King Jehoiakim’s dead body would lie out in the cold night and the hot day. The king, his children, and his servants would suffer for their iniquity. On top of that, Yahweh was going to bring disasters to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. This will all happen because they had not listened to Yahweh.