Jeremiah 22:7

And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

In Context

6For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.

8And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:33See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.

Isaiah 27:10For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

Isaiah 54:16See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

Jeremiah 5:15See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

Jeremiah 50:20In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.

Zechariah 11:1Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 22:2-10

Jeremiah Preaches before Jehoiakim. ( b. c. 590.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the Lord , O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: 3 Thus saith the Lord ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither… Read the whole commentary →

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