Jeremiah 22:15

Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father — did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then [it is] well with him.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

In Context

14Who is saying, 'I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

16He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then [it is] well — is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:15And David reigneth over all Israel, and David is doing judgment and righteousness to all his people,

1 Kings 10:9Jehovah thy God is blessed who delighted in thee, to put thee on the throne of Israel; in Jehovah's loving Israel to the age He doth set thee for king, to do judgment and righteousness.

2 Kings 23:25And like him there hath not been before him a king who turned back unto Jehovah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, and after him there hath none risen like him.

2 Chronicles 34:2and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in the ways of David his father, and hath not turned aside — right or left.

2 Chronicles 35:12and they turn aside the burnt-offering, to put them by the divisions of the house of the fathers of the sons of the people, to bring near to Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses — and so to the oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:26And the rest of the matters of Josiah, and his kind acts, according as it is written in the law of Jehovah,

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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