Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 22:1 (show verse)
Thus said the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
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Jeremiah 22:2 (show verse)
Say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
Jeremiah 22:3 (show verse)
Thus says the LORD: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Aliens » To be treated with justice
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Fatherless » Do no violence to
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
The poor » Do justice to
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Injustice to
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Oppression of
Widow and fatherless » Kindness to encouraged
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Fatherless » Do no violence to
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
The poor » Do justice to
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Injustice to
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Oppression of
Widow and fatherless » Kindness to encouraged
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Jeremiah 22:4 (show verse)
For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Jeremiah 22:5 (show verse)
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation."
Jeremiah 22:6 (show verse)
For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
Jeremiah 22:7 (show verse)
I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah 22:8 (show verse)
Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?'
Jeremiah 22:9 (show verse)
Then they shall answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.'
Jeremiah 22:10 (show verse)
Do not weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country."
Jeremiah 22:11 (show verse)
For thus says the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: "He shall not return there any more.
Jeremiah 22:12 (show verse)
But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more."
Jeremiah 22:13 (show verse)
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Business life » Employers » Exacting service with wages
Dishonesty » Condemned
Jehoiakim » Wicked reign and final overthrow of
Masters' » Unjust, denounced
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The luxurious king
Presumptuous plans » Examples of » The luxurious king
Unrighteousness » The unrighteous
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Exacting service with wages
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Business life » Employers » Exacting service with wages
Dishonesty » Condemned
Jehoiakim » Wicked reign and final overthrow of
Masters' » Unjust, denounced
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The luxurious king
Presumptuous plans » Examples of » The luxurious king
Unrighteousness » The unrighteous
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Exacting service with wages
Jeremiah 22:14 (show verse)
who says, "I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms," and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Jeremiah 22:15 (show verse)
Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22:16 (show verse)
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:17 (show verse)
"But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it."
Jeremiah 22:18 (show verse)
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "they shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah my brother. or, Ah sister.' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah lord.' or, 'Ah his glory.'
Jeremiah 22:19 (show verse)
He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 22:20 (show verse)
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
Jeremiah 22:21 (show verse)
I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, 'I will not hear.' This has been your way from your youth, that you did not obey my voice.
Jeremiah 22:22 (show verse)
The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
Jeremiah 22:23 (show verse)
Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 22:24 (show verse)
As I live," says the LORD, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;
Jeremiah 22:25 (show verse)
and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 22:26 (show verse)
I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
Jeremiah 22:27 (show verse)
But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return."
Jeremiah 22:28 (show verse)
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?
Jeremiah 22:29 (show verse)
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:30 (show verse)
Thus says the LORD, "Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.