Jeremiah 22:30 - Exposition

Write ye this man childless ; i.e. enter him in the register of the citizens (comp. Isaiah 4:3 ) as one who has no heirs. He may have children, but none of them shall succeed to his place in the community. This is all that the passage means; there is no discrepancy with history: how should there be, when Jeremiah himself has mentioned the posterity of Jehoiachin? Yet the Septuagint thought it necessary to avoid the appearance of such a discrepancy by rendering, not "childless," but "one proscribed" ( ἐκκήρυκτον ).