Jeremiah 22:15
Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
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In Context
16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the Lord.
Cross References
2 Samuel 8:15David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness to all his people.
1 Kings 10:9Blessed is the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness."
2 Kings 23:25Like him was there no king before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
2 Chronicles 34:2He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Chronicles 35:12They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the children of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. So they did with the cattle.
2 Chronicles 35:26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of the Lord,
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 →