John Calvin Commentary Jeremiah 22:25

"and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans." — Jeremiah 22:25 (ASV)

This verse is connected with the last and more fully explains what had been briefly said. The plucking off of the sealing ring from God’s finger took place when Jeconiah was deprived of his glory and his kingdom and made subject to the king of Babylon. Though the king spared his life, as Scripture testifies (2 Kings 25:7; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Jeremiah 52:11), yet when he surrendered himself to him, he trembled as though he saw the sword ready to cut off his head; for he expected no mercy, and his fear made him go out of the city and surrender himself to his inveterate enemy. The meaning of the whole is that King Jeconiah would reach a desperate situation, for he would be forced to give himself up, helpless and unarmed, into the hands of his cruel enemies.

But he repeats the threat and expands on the subject: I will deliver you, he says, into the hand of those who seek your life, and then, into the hand of those whose face you dread, and, in the third place, into the hand of Nebuchadnezer, (Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, is called Nebuchadrezer here and in other places), and lastly, into the hand of the Chaldeans. Thus the Prophet recounts, as it were, in order, several kinds of death, so that Jeconiah might know how dreadful God’s judgment would be. He adds: