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Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother, “Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/13.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother, &#8220Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother, “Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother, “Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother, “Humble yourselves <i>and</i> take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown [the crown of your glory] Has come down from your head.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The LORD told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Say to the king and his mother, "Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/13.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come take a lowly seat, because your beautiful crowns have fallen off your heads."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the queen mother: ?Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/13.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The LORD told me, "Tell the king and the queen mother, 'Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have come down from your heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low—sit still, "" For your principalities have come down, "" The crown of your beauty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the mistress, Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory was brought down from your heads.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />“Say to the king and to the female ruler: Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory has gone down from your head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Say to the king and to the princes, Humble yourselves and repent, for the crown of your glory has fallen from your heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Say to the King and to the Princes: “Be humble and return to God, because the crown of your glory has fallen from your head”<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother: 'Sit ye down low; For your headtires are come down, Even your beautiful crown.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=4041" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Captivity Threatened</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ĕ·mōr (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">Say</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: lam·me·leḵ (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- King. From malak; a king.">to the king</a> <a href="/hebrew/1377.htm" title="1377: wə·lag·gə·ḇî·rāh (Conj-w, Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- Lady, queen. Feminine of gbiyr; a mistress.">and to the queen mother:</a> <a href="/hebrew/8213.htm" title="8213: haš·pî·lū (V-Hifil-Imp-mp) -- To be or become low, to be abased. A primitive root; to depress or sink.">“Take a lowly</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: šê·ḇū (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">seat,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/8597.htm" title="8597: tip̄·’ar·tə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- Beauty, glory. Or tiphereth; from pa'ar; ornament.">your glorious</a> <a href="/hebrew/5850.htm" title="5850: ‘ă·ṭe·reṯ (N-fsc) -- A crown, wreath. From atar; a crown.">crowns</a> <a href="/hebrew/3381.htm" title="3381: yā·raḏ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To come or go down, descend. ">have fallen</a> <a href="/hebrew/4761.htm" title="4761: mar·’ă·šō·w·ṯê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Headship, dominion. Denominative from ro'sh; properly, headship, i.e. dominion.">from your heads.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/24-12.htm">2 Kings 24:12</a></span><br />Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/25-27.htm">2 Kings 25:27-30</a></span><br />On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison. / And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. / So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-10.htm">Lamentations 2:10</a></span><br />The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/21-25.htm">Ezekiel 21:25-27</a></span><br />And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted. / A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/3-16.htm">Isaiah 3:16-26</a></span><br />The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles— / the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.” / In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents; ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm">Isaiah 22:15-19</a></span><br />This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: / What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock? / Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/12-12.htm">Ezekiel 12:12-13</a></span><br />And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land. / But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/10-7.htm">Hosea 10:7</a></span><br />Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/4-2.htm">Amos 4:2-3</a></span><br />The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. / You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/1-16.htm">Micah 1:16</a></span><br />Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-12.htm">Matthew 23:12</a></span><br />For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-52.htm">Luke 1:52</a></span><br />He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/14-11.htm">Luke 14:11</a></span><br />For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/18-14.htm">Luke 18:14</a></span><br />I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-6.htm">James 4:6</a></span><br />But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.</p><p class="hdg">unto.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/22-26.htm">Jeremiah 22:26</a></b></br> And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/24-12.htm">2 Kings 24:12,15</a></b></br> And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/19-2.htm">Ezekiel 19:2</a></b></br> And say, What <i>is</i> thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.</p><p class="hdg">humble.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/10-3.htm">Exodus 10:3</a></b></br> And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/33-12.htm">2 Chronicles 33:12,19,23</a></b></br> And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/18-4.htm">Matthew 18:4</a></b></br> Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</p><p class="hdg">sit.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Isaiah 3:26</a></b></br> And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she <i>being</i> desolate shall sit upon the ground.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1</a></b></br> Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: <i>there is</i> no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/2-10.htm">Lamentations 2:10</a></b></br> The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, <i>and</i> keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.</p><p class="hdg">principalities.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/12-6.htm">Beautiful</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-3.htm">Beauty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm">Crown</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm">Crowns</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-5.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-11.htm">Glorious</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-1.htm">Head</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm">Headdresses</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-26.htm">Heads</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm">Headtires</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-2.htm">Humble</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-7.htm">Magnificence</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-7.htm">Mistress</a> <a href="/jeremiah/1-5.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/titus/3-1.htm">Principalities</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-18.htm">Queen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm">Queen-Mother</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm">Seat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Seated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-13.htm">Sit</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm">Thrones</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-2.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/13-20.htm">Beautiful</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-17.htm">Beauty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm">Crown</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-42.htm">Crowns</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-8.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-21.htm">Glorious</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-21.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Head</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm">Headdresses</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-3.htm">Heads</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm">Headtires</a> <a href="/jeremiah/37-20.htm">Humble</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-11.htm">Magnificence</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm">Mistress</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-8.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/romans/8-38.htm">Principalities</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm">Queen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm">Queen-Mother</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-21.htm">Seat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-2.htm">Seated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-2.htm">Sit</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-32.htm">Thrones</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-21.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 13</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-1.htm">By the type of a linen belt, hidden at Euphrates, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-9.htm">God prefigures the destruction of his people.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-12.htm">By the parable of bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-15.htm">He exhorts to prevent their future judgments.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-22.htm">He shows their abominations are the cause thereof.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of Jeremiah, this likely refers to King Jehoiachin and his mother Nehushta. The queen mother held a position of power and respect, as seen in <a href="/1_kings/2-19.htm">1 Kings 2:19</a>, where Solomon honored Bathsheba. The inclusion of the queen mother highlights the gravity of the message and the impending judgment on the royal family.<p><b>Take a lowly seat:</b><br>This command signifies a humbling or demotion from their positions of power. In ancient Near Eastern culture, seating arrangements were symbolic of one's status and authority. To be told to take a lowly seat is a metaphor for losing power and prestige. This reflects the theme of divine judgment and reversal of fortunes, as seen in other scriptures like <a href="/luke/1-52.htm">Luke 1:52</a>, where God brings down rulers from their thrones.<p><b>for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads:</b><br>The imagery of fallen crowns symbolizes the loss of authority and the end of a dynasty. Crowns represent royal power and divine favor, and their removal indicates God's judgment and the cessation of their rule. This prophecy was fulfilled when Jehoiachin was taken captive to Babylon, as recorded in <a href="/2_kings/24-12.htm">2 Kings 24:12</a>. The fall of the Davidic line at this time foreshadows the ultimate restoration through Jesus Christ, the eternal King, as prophesied in <a href="/isaiah/9-7.htm">Isaiah 9:7</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. His ministry spanned the reigns of several kings, including Jehoiakim and Zedekiah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_king.htm">The King</a></b><br>Likely referring to King Jehoiachin or King Zedekiah of Judah, both of whom faced the consequences of Judah's disobedience to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_queen_mother.htm">The Queen Mother</a></b><br>Possibly Nehushta, the mother of King Jehoiachin, or Hamutal, the mother of King Zedekiah. The queen mother held significant influence in the royal court.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was facing impending judgment and exile due to its persistent idolatry and rebellion against God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>The event where the people of Judah were taken captive by the Babylonians, fulfilling the warnings given by prophets like Jeremiah.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/h/humility_before_god.htm">Humility Before God</a></b><br>The call for the king and queen mother to "take a lowly seat" is a reminder that no earthly power is above God's authority. We must approach God with humility, recognizing His sovereignty over our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_pride.htm">The Consequences of Pride</a></b><br>Pride can lead to downfall, as seen in the leaders of Judah. We should examine our lives for areas where pride may be leading us away from God's will.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_leadership.htm">The Role of Leadership</a></b><br>Leaders are accountable to God for their actions. This passage challenges those in positions of authority to lead with integrity and humility, seeking God's guidance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>God's warnings through Jeremiah highlight His control over nations and leaders. Trusting in God's plan, even in times of judgment, is crucial for believers.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>While this passage speaks of judgment, it also implies the possibility of restoration through repentance. Turning back to God can lead to healing and renewal.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 13</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_hebron's_role_in_the_bible.htm">What were fertility cults in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_oneness_doctrine.htm">What does Revelation 18:2 mean by Babylon's fall?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_abijam's_mother_named_differently.htm">In 1 Kings 15:2, why does Abijam's mother appear as 'Maachah,' while 2 Chronicles 13:2 identifies her differently?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_sennacherib's_invasion_match_records.htm">2 Kings 18:13 - Does the timeline of Sennacherib's invasion align with known Assyrian records?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) <span class= "bld">The queen.</span>--Not the usual word, the Hebrew feminine of king, but literally "the great lady" ("<span class= "ital">dominatrix</span>" Vulg.), the title of a queen-mother (in this case, probably, of Nehushta, the mother of Jehoiachin, <a href="/2_kings/24-8.htm" title="Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.">2Kings 24:8</a>), sharing the throne during her son's minority. The same word is used of Maachah, the mother of Asa (<a href="/1_kings/15-13.htm" title="And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.">1Kings 15:13</a>; <a href="/2_kings/10-13.htm" title="Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.">2Kings 10:13</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/15-16.htm" title="And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.">2Chronicles 15:16</a>), and meets us again in <a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm" title="(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)">Jeremiah 29:2</a>.<p><span class= "bld">Your principalities.</span>--Literally, as in the margin, <span class= "ital">your head-tires, i.e., </span>the diadems which were signs of kingly state. The word is used nowhere else, and may have been coined by the prophet or taken from the court vocabulary of the time. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - The extent of the calamity shown in individual instances. For the fulfillment, see <a href="/2_kings/24-15.htm">2 Kings 24:15</a>. After a reign of three months, the young prince and his mother were carried to Babylon. <span class="cmt_word">And to the queen</span>; rather, <span class="accented">and to the queen-mother</span> (literally, <span class="accented">the mistress</span>). It will be noticed that, except in two cases, the names of the mothers of the reigning kings of Judah are scrupulously mentioned in the Books of Kings. This and the title of "mistress" are indications of the high rank they enjoyed in the social system. In the case of Asa, we are told that he removed his mother, Maachah, from her position as "mistress," or queen-mother, on account of her idolatry (<a href="/1_kings/15-13.htm">1 Kings 15:13</a>). The political value of the station is strikingly shown by the ease with which Athaliah, as queen-mother, usurped the supreme authority (<a href="/2_kings/11.htm">2 Kings 11</a>.). From an historical point of view, the "queen-mother" of the Jews is a most interesting personage; she is a relic of the primitive age in which relationship was reckoned with regard to the mother (so with the Accadians, Etruseans, Finns, etc.). It should be added, however, that once (viz. <a href="/1_kings/11-19.htm">1 Kings 11:19</a>) the same title, "mistress," is applied to the queen-consort. <span class="cmt_word">Humble yourselves, sit down</span>; rather, <span class="accented">sit down in abase</span>-sent; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> take the station suitable for your abased circumstances (comp. <a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Your principalities</span>; rather, <span class="accented">your</span> <span class="accented">head</span>. <span class="accented">ornaments</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Say</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱמֹ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·mōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the king</span><br /><span class="heb">לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ</span> <span class="translit">(lam·me·leḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> </span><span class="str2">A king</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and to the queen mother:</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלַגְּבִירָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lag·gə·ḇî·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1377.htm">Strong's 1377: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lady, queen</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“Take a lowly</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשְׁפִּ֣ילוּ</span> <span class="translit">(haš·pî·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8213.htm">Strong's 8213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become low, to be abased</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seat,</span><br /><span class="heb">שֵׁ֑בוּ</span> <span class="translit">(šê·ḇū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֤י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your glorious</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּֽפְאַרְתְּכֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(tip̄·’ar·tə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8597.htm">Strong's 8597: </a> </span><span class="str2">Beauty, glory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">crowns</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲטֶ֖רֶת</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·ṭe·reṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5850.htm">Strong's 5850: </a> </span><span class="str2">A crown, wreath</span><br /><br /><span class="word">have fallen</span><br /><span class="heb">יָרַד֙</span> <span class="translit">(yā·raḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3381.htm">Strong's 3381: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come or go down, descend</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from your heads.</span><br /><span class="heb">מַרְאֲשׁ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(mar·’ă·šō·w·ṯê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4761.htm">Strong's 4761: </a> </span><span class="str2">Headship, dominion</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Jeremiah 13:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/13-18.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 13:18 Say you to the king (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/13-17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 13:17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 13:17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/13-19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 13:19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 13:19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>