Jeremiah 22:8

Then many nations will pass by this city. Each person will say to the next, “Why has Yahweh acted in this way toward this great city?” 1

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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?

In Context

7For I have designated destroyers to come against you! Men with their weapons 1 will cut off the best of your cedars and let them fall into the fire.

9Then the other will answer, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and bowed down to other gods and worshiped them.” 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23and when they see that the whole land has become sulfur and burning salt, where nothing is sown or bears fruit, where no vegetation grows, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, that Yahweh destroyed in his anger and wrath—

1 Kings 9:8This temple will become a heap of ruins, and everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss. They will ask, 'Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?'

2 Chronicles 7:20then I will uproot them from out of my ground that I have given them. This house that I have set apart for my name, I will cast away from before me, and I will make it a proverb and a joke among all the peoples.

Jeremiah 40:3So Yahweh brought it about. He did just as he had decreed, since you people sinned against him and did not obey his voice. That is why this thing has happened to you people.

Lamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, 1 nor did any of the inhabitants of the world believe, 1 that enemies or opponents could enter the gates of Jerusalem. 1

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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