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And the answer will be, “Because they abandoned the covenant with the Lord their God and worshipped and served other gods.”

10 Don’t weep or lament for the dead king.[a]
    Weep instead for the one who has gone away,
        for he will never return to see his native soil.

11 This is what the Lord says about Shallum son of Judah’s King Josiah, who succeeded his father Josiah as king but who is now gone from this place: He will never return!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:10 Heb lacks king.

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