(KJV) Jeremiah 221

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⥃A Warning to Judah’s Kings

[1] Thus saith the Lord; Go2 down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,3 [2] And say, Hear4 the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest5 upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter6 in by these gates: [3] Thus saith the Lord; Execute7 ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong8, do no violence9 to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither10 shed innocent blood in this place. [4] For if ye do this thing indeed, then11 shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David12, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. [5] But i13f14 ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that15 this house shall become a desolation.

⥃A Warning about the Palace

[6] For thus saith the Lord unto16 the king’s house of Judah; Thou17 [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely18 I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited. [7] And I19 will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut20 down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire. [8] And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?21 [9] Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.22

⥃A Warning about Shallum

[10] Weep ye23 not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore24 for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. [11] For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum25 the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: [12] But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.26

⥃A Warning about Jehoiakim

[13] [¶]Woe unto27 him that buildeth28 his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; [14] That saith, I will29 build me a wide house and large30 chambers, and cutteth him out windows31; and [it is] cieled with cedar32, and painted with vermilion. [15] Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thy33self] in cedar? did not thy father eat34 and drink, and do35 judgment and justice, [and] then36 [it was] well with him? [16] He judged37 the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him]: [was] not38 this to know me? saith the Lord. [17] But thine eyes39 and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness40, and for to shed41 innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence42, to do [it]. [18] Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They43 shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother44! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! [19] He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.45

[20] Go up to Lebanon, and cry46; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for47 all thy lovers are destroyed. [21] I spake48 unto thee in thy prosperity49; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This50 [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. [22] The wind51 shall eat up all thy pastors52, and thy lovers53 shall go into captivity: surely54 then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. [23] O inhabitant55 of Lebanon56, that makest57 thy nest in the cedars, how58 gracious shalt thou be when59 pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

⥃A Warning to Coniah

[24] [As] I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah60 the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet61 upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; [25] And I62 will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose63 face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. [26] And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.64 [27] But to the65 land whereunto they desire66 to return, thither shall they not return. [28] [Is] this man Coniah67 a despised68 broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed69, and are cast into a land which70 they know not?71 [29] O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.72 [30] Thus saith the Lord, Write73 ye this man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting74 upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

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  1. Jer 22:1, He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats; Jer 22:10, The judgment of Shallum; Jer 22:13, of Jehoiakim; Jer 22:20, and of Coniah. ↩

  2. Jer 21:11, Jer 34:2; 1Sam 15:16-23; 2Sam 12:1, 2Sam 24:11-12; 1Kgs 21:18-20; 2Chr 19:2-3, 2Chr 25:15-16, 2Chr 33:10; Hos 5:1; Amos 7:13; Mark 6:18; Luke 3:19-20 ↩

  3. am cir, 3406, bc cir, 598 ↩

  4. Jer 22:29, Jer 13:18, Jer 17:20-27, Jer 19:3, Jer 29:20; 1Kgs 22:19; Isa 1:10, Isa 28:14; Ezek 34:7; Amos 7:16 ↩

  5. Jer 22:4, Jer 22:30, Jer 17:25, Jer 29:16-17, Jer 36:30; Isa 9:7; Luke 1:32 ↩

  6. Jer 7:2, Jer 17:20 ↩

  7. Jer 5:28, Jer 9:24, Jer 21:12; Exod 23:6-9; Lev 19:15; Deut 16:18-20, Deut 25:1; 2Sam 23:3; Job 29:7-17; Ps 72:2-4; Mic 3:11; Zech 7:9-11 ↩

  8. Jer 22:17 ↩

  9. Deut 10:18, Deut 24:7, Deut 27:19; Job 22:9, Job 24:9, Job 29:12; Ps 68:5, Ps 94:6; Prov 23:10; Isa 1:23; Ezek 22:7; Mal 3:5; Jas 1:27 ↩

  10. Jer 22:17, Jer 7:6, Jer 26:16; Deut 19:10-13; 2Kgs 24:4; Ps 94:21; Prov 6:17; Isa 1:15-20; Joel 3:19 ↩

  11. Jer 17:25 ↩

  12. Heb. for David upon his throne ↩

  13. Jer 17:27; 2Chr 7:19, 2Chr 7:22; Isa 1:20 ↩

  14. Gen 22:16; Num 14:28-30; Deut 32:40-42; Ps 95:11; Amos 6:8, Amos 8:7-8; Heb 3:18, Heb 6:13, Heb 6:17 ↩

  15. Jer 7:13-14, Jer 26:6-9, Jer 39:8; Mic 3:12 ↩

  16. Jer 22:24, Jer 21:11; Gen 37:25; Deut 3:25; Song 5:15 ↩

  17. Gilead was the most fertile part of the country, and renowned for its rich pastures; and Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, celebrated for its stately cedars; and both were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. "But though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down, and make thee a wilderness." ↩

  18. Jer 4:20, Jer 7:34, Jer 9:11, Jer 19:7-8, Jer 21:14, Jer 25:9-10, Jer 26:6-9, Jer 26:18; Ps 107:34; Isa 6:11, Isa 24:1-6, Isa 27:10; Ezek 33:27-28 ↩

  19. Jer 4:6-7, Jer 5:15, Jer 50:20-23; Isa 10:3-7, Isa 13:3-5, Isa 54:16-17; Ezek 9:1-7; Matt 22:7 ↩

  20. Jer 21:14; Isa 10:33-34, Isa 27:10-11, Isa 37:24; Zech 11:1 ↩

  21. Deut 29:23-25; 1Kgs 9:8-9; 2Chr 7:20-22; Lam 2:15-17, Lam 4:12; Dan 9:7 ↩

  22. Jer 2:17-19, Jer 40:2-3, Jer 50:7; Deut 29:25-28; 2Kgs 22:17; 2Chr 34:25 ↩

  23. 2Kgs 22:20, 2Kgs 23:30; 2Chr 35:23-25; Eccl 4:2; Isa 57:1; Lam 4:9; Luke 23:28 ↩

  24. Jer 22:11; 2Kgs 23:30-34; Ezek 19:3-4 ↩

  25. 1Chr 3:15; 2Chr 28:12, 2Chr 34:22, 2Chr 36:1-4, Jehoahaz ↩

  26. Jer 22:18; 2Kgs 23:34 ↩

  27. Jer 22:18; 2Kgs 23:35-37; 2Chr 36:4 ↩

  28. Lev 19:13; Deut 24:14-15; Job 24:10-11; Mic 3:10; Hab 2:9-11; Mal 3:5; Jas 5:4 ↩

  29. Prov 17:19, Prov 24:27; Isa 5:8-9, Isa 9:9; Dan 4:30; Mal 1:4; Luke 14:28-29 ↩

  30. Heb. through-aired ↩

  31. or, my windows ↩

  32. 2Sam 7:2; 2Chr 3:5; Song 1:17; Hag 1:4 ↩

  33. Jer 22:18; 2Kgs 23:25; 1Chr 3:15 ↩

  34. 1Kgs 4:20-23; 2Chr 35:7-8, 2Chr 35:12-18; Eccl 2:24, Eccl 9:7-10, Eccl 10:17; Isa 33:16; Luke 11:41; Acts 2:46; 1Cor 10:31 ↩

  35. Jer 22:3, Jer 21:12, Jer 23:5; 2Sam 8:15; 1Kgs 10:9; 2Kgs 22:2, 2Kgs 23:25; 2Chr 34:2; Prov 20:28, Prov 21:3, Prov 25:5, Prov 29:4, Prov 31:9; Isa 9:7 ↩

  36. Jer 42:6; Deut 4:40; Ps 128:1-2; Isa 3:10 ↩

  37. Jer 5:28; Job 29:12-17; Ps 72:1-4, Ps 72:12-13, Ps 82:3-4, Ps 109:31; Prov 24:11-12; Isa 1:17 ↩

  38. Jer 9:3, Jer 9:16, Jer 9:24, Jer 31:33-34; 1Sam 2:2; 1Chr 28:9; Ps 9:10; John 8:19, John 8:54-55; John 16:3, John 17:3, John 17:6; Titus 1:16; 1John 2:3-4 ↩

  39. Josh 7:21; Job 31:7; Ps 119:36-37; Ezek 19:6, Ezek 33:31; Mark 7:21-22; Jas 1:14-15; 2Pet 2:14; 1John 2:15-16 ↩

  40. Exod 18:21; Ps 10:3; Luke 12:15-21, Luke 16:13-14; Rom 1:29; 1Cor 6:10; Eph 5:3-5; Col 3:5; 1Tim 6:9-10; 2Pet 2:3, 2Pet 2:14 ↩

  41. Jer 22:3, Jer 26:22-24; 1Kgs 21:19; 2Kgs 24:4; 2Chr 36:8; Ezek 19:6; Zeph 3:3 ↩

  42. or, incursion ↩

  43. Jer 22:10, Jer 16:4, Jer 16:6; 2Chr 21:19-20, 2Chr 35:25 ↩

  44. 2Sam 1:26, 2Sam 3:33-38; 1Kgs 13:30 ↩

  45. Jer 15:3, Jer 36:6, Jer 36:30; 1Kgs 14:10, 1Kgs 21:23-24; 2Kgs 9:35; 2Chr 36:6 ↩

  46. Jer 2:36-37, Jer 30:13-15; 2Kgs 24:7; Isa 20:5-6, Isa 30:1-7, Isa 31:1-3 ↩

  47. Jer 22:22, Jer 4:30, Jer 25:9, Jer 25:17-27; Lam 1:2, Lam 1:19; Ezek 23:9, Ezek 23:22 ↩

  48. Jer 2:31, Jer 6:16, Jer 35:15, Jer 36:21-26; 2Chr 33:10, 2Chr 36:16-17; Prov 30:9 ↩

  49. Heb. prosperities ↩

  50. Jer 3:25, Jer 7:22-28, Jer 32:30; Deut 9:7, Deut 9:24, Deut 31:27, Deut 32:15-20; Judg 2:11-19; Neh 9:16-37; Ps 106:6-48; Isa 48:8; Ezek 20:8, Ezek 20:13, Ezek 20:21, Ezek 20:28, Ezek 23:3-39 ↩

  51. Jer 4:11-13, Jer 30:23-24; Isa 64:6; Hos 4:19, Hos 13:15 ↩

  52. Jer 2:8, Jer 5:30-31, Jer 10:21, Jer 12:10, Jer 23:1-2; Ezek 34:2-10; Zech 11:8, Zech 11:17; Acts 7:51-52 ↩

  53. Jer 22:20 ↩

  54. Jer 2:26-27, Jer 2:37, Jer 20:11 ↩

  55. Heb. inhabitress ↩

  56. Jer 22:6; Zech 11:1-2 ↩

  57. Jer 21:13, Jer 48:28, Jer 49:16; Num 24:21; Amos 9:2; Obad 1:4; Hab 2:9 ↩

  58. Jer 3:21, Jer 4:31, Jer 6:24, Jer 30:5-6, Jer 50:4-5; Hos 5:15, Hos 6:1, Hos 7:14 ↩

  59. Jer 4:30-31 ↩

  60. Jer 22:28, Jer 37:1; 2Kgs 24:6-8, Jehoiachin, 1Chr 3:16, Jeconiah, Matt 1:11-12 ↩

  61. Jer 22:6; Song 8:6; Hag 2:23 ↩

  62. Jer 22:28, Jer 21:7, Jer 34:20-21, Jer 38:16; 2Kgs 24:15-16 ↩

  63. Prov 10:24 ↩

  64. Jer 15:2-4; 2Kgs 24:15; 2Chr 36:9-10; Isa 22:17; Ezek 19:9-14 ↩

  65. Jer 22:11, Jer 44:14, Jer 52:31-34; 2Kgs 25:27-30 ↩

  66. Heb. lift up their mind, Ps 86:4 ↩

  67. Jer 22:24 ↩

  68. Jer 48:38; 1Sam 5:3-5; 2Sam 5:21; Ps 31:12; Hos 8:8, Hos 13:15; Rom 9:21-23; 2Tim 2:20-21 ↩

  69. Jer 22:30; 1Chr 3:17-24; Matt 1:12-16 ↩

  70. Jer 14:18 ↩

  71. Is, This appears to be the application of the whole discourse to Zedekiah; for it is to be observed, that Jeconiah is spoken of as absent, and already in captivity. Now if he and his seed had been for their sins thrown aside as a broken idol, or as a vessel which a man despises, how could Zedekiah, who copied and far exceeded them, expect to prosper on the throne of David? ↩

  72. Jer 6:19; Deut 4:26, Deut 31:19, Deut 32:1; Isa 1:1-2, Isa 34:1; Mic 1:2, Mic 6:1-2 ↩

  73. Zedekiah was taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar; his sons slain before his eyes; and his eyes being put out, he was carried to Babylon; and we read no more either of him or his posterity. 1Chr 3:16-17; Matt 1:12-16 ↩

  74. Jer 36:30; Ps 94:20; Luke 1:32-33; Matt 1:11-12 ↩