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22 I will place the key[a] of the House of David on his shoulder;
    what he opens, no one will shut,
    what he shuts, no one will open.(A)
23 I will fix him as a peg in a firm place,
    a seat of honor for his ancestral house;
24 On him shall hang all the glory of his ancestral house:[b]
    descendants and offspring,
    all the little dishes, from bowls to jugs.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:22 Key: symbol of authority; cf. Mt 16:19; Rev 3:7.
  2. 22:24–25 Apparently Eliakim proved to be a disappointment, so an oracle of judgment was added to the originally positive oracle to Eliakim.