Jeremiah 22:14

Thou hast built for thyself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

In Context

13He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbor for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

15Shalt thou reign, because thou art provoked with thy father Ahaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for thee to execute judgment and justice.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2that the king said to Nathan the prophet, Behold now, I live in a house of cedar, and the ark of the Lord dwells in the midst of a tent.

Proverbs 17:19A lover of sin rejoices in strifes; 1

Song of Solomon 1:17The beams of our house are cedars, 1 Our ceilings are of cypress.

Isaiah 9:9The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.

Haggai 1:4Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 22:11-20

The Doom of Shallum and Jehoiakim. ( b. c. 590.) 10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. 11 For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum 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. 13 Woe unto him that buildeth… Read the whole commentary →

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