“Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?”
The rhetorical question about whether Coniah is a despised, broken vessel or a vessel in which no one delights personalizes the judgment. The king, formerly a vessel of honor (vessel of the LORD), has become a vessel of contempt. The breaking suggests not mere rejection but active destruction of value. The verse shows that the king's judgment involves reversal of status from honor to contempt.
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