Jeremiah 22:16

A Message Concerning Jehoiakim

¹⁵ Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him? ¹⁶ He judged the judgment of the poor and the needy; then it was well: was this not knowing me? says Jehovah. ¹⁷ For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.

Cause of the Poor

Given to the Poor

Poor and Needy

Says the Lord

Declares The Lord

Jehovah

Judah

Psalm 72:1-4

To Solomon. O God, thou wilt give thy judgments to the king, and thy justice to the king's son.

Psalm 72:12-13

For we will deliver the needy from the powerful one, and the poor and no helper to him.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.

Jeremiah 9:24

But he boasting shall boast in this, to understand and know me, that I am Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment and justice in the earth: for in these I delighted, says Jehovah.

1 Samuel 2:2

None holy as Jehovah, for none beside thee: and no rock as our God.

Job 29:12-17

For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.

Psalm 9:10

And they knowing thy name will trust in thee, for thou didst not forsake those seeking thee, O Jehovah.

Psalm 82:3-4

Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one

Psalm 109:31

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy to save his soul from the judges.

Proverbs 24:11-12

If thou shalt refrain to deliver those being brought to death, and those going to be slain;

Jeremiah 5:28

They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:16

And I scattered them in the nations which they knew not, they and their fathers: and I sent after them the sword till I consumed them.

Jeremiah 31:33-34

For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.

John 8:19

Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye had known my Father also.

John 8:54-55

Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father honouring me; whom ye say, that he is your God:

John 16:3

And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

John 17:6

I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.

Titus 1:16

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

1 John 2:3-4

And in this we know that we have known him, if we should keep his commands.