Jeremiah 22:5

But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house will be in desolation.

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In The King James Version

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

In Context

4For if you will indeed accomplish this word, then there will enter through the gates of this house kings from the stock of David, sitting on his throne, and riding on chariots and on horses: they, and their servants, and their people.

6For thus says the Lord about the house of the king of Judah: You are to me like Gilead, the head of Lebanon. Certainly, I will make you desolate, with uninhabitable cities.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:16“By my own self, I have sworn, says the Lord. Because you have done this thing, and have not spared your only begotten son for my sake,

Deuteronomy 32:40I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live in eternity.

2 Chronicles 7:21And this house will be like a proverb to all who pass by. And being astonished, they shall say: ‘Why has the Lord acted this way toward this land and toward this house?’

Psalms 95:11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved.

Jeremiah 7:13And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and because I have spoken to you from your morning rising, and because I was speaking, but you were not listening, and because I have called you, but you have not responded:

Jeremiah 17:27But if you will not listen to me, to sanctify the day of the Sabbath, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring these things through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire at its gates, and it will devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it will not be extinguished.”

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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