Jeremiah 22:14-24

14 He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace with spacious upper rooms.’ So he makes large windows in it, panels it with cedar and decorates it in red.
15 “Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him.
16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?” declares the LORD.
17 “But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
18 Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
19 He will have the burial of a donkey— dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.”
20 “Go up to Lebanon and cry out, let your voice be heard in Bashan, cry out from Abarim, for all your allies are crushed.
21 I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.
22 The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.
23 You who live in ‘Lebanon,[a] ’ who are nestled in cedar buildings, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in labor!
24 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Jehoiachin[b] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.

Cross References 28

  • 1. Isaiah 5:8-9
  • 2. S 2 Samuel 7:2
  • 3. Ezekiel 23:14
  • 4. 2 Kings 23:25
  • 5. Psalms 128:2; S Isaiah 3:10
  • 6. Ps 72:1-4,12-13; S Psalms 82:3; S Proverbs 24:23
  • 7. S Psalms 36:10
  • 8. S Isaiah 56:11
  • 9. S 2 Kings 24:4
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 28:33; Ezekiel 18:12; Micah 2:2
  • 11. S 2 Samuel 1:26
  • 12. 2 Kings 24:6
  • 13. Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 36:30
  • 14. S Isaiah 57:13
  • 15. S Psalms 68:15
  • 16. S Numbers 27:12
  • 17. ver 22; Jeremiah 30:14; Lamentations 1:19; Ezekiel 16:33-34; Hosea 8:9
  • 18. Zechariah 7:7
  • 19. Deuteronomy 9:7; Psalms 25:7; Isaiah 54:4; Jeremiah 3:25; Jeremiah 31:19; Jeremiah 32:30
  • 20. S Jeremiah 3:13; Jeremiah 7:23-28; Zephaniah 3:2
  • 21. S Deuteronomy 28:64; S Job 27:21
  • 22. S Jeremiah 10:21
  • 23. S ver 20
  • 24. S Jeremiah 7:19
  • 25. S 1 Kings 7:2; Ezekiel 17:3
  • 26. S Jeremiah 4:31
  • 27. S 2 Kings 24:6,8; Jeremiah 37:1
  • 28. S Genesis 38:18

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)
  • [b]. Hebrew "Koniah," a variant of "Jehoiachin" ; also in verse 28
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