Jeremiah 22:1-6

Judgment Against Wicked Kings

1 This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there:
2 ‘Hear the word of the LORD to you, king of Judah, you who sit on David’s throne—you, your officials and your people who come through these gates.
3 This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.
5 But if you do not obey these commands, declares the LORD, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.’ ”
6 For this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: “Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Jeremiah 13:18; Jeremiah 34:2
  • 2. Amos 7:16
  • 3. S Jeremiah 17:25; Luke 1:32
  • 4. Jeremiah 17:20
  • 5. S Leviticus 25:17; Isaiah 56:1; Jeremiah 5:1; Ezekiel 33:14; Ezekiel 45:9; Hosea 12:6; Amos 5:24; Micah 6:8; Zechariah 7:9
  • 6. Psalms 72:4; Jeremiah 21:12
  • 7. S Exodus 22:22; S Isaiah 1:17; Jeremiah 5:28
  • 8. S Jeremiah 7:6
  • 9. S Jeremiah 17:25
  • 10. S Jeremiah 17:27
  • 11. S Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13
  • 12. S Genesis 31:21; S Song of Songs 4:1
  • 13. S 1 Kings 7:2; S Isaiah 33:9
  • 14. Micah 3:12
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