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Jeremiah 22 Summary
Exhortation to Kings and Judgment on Jehoiakim
Jeremiah is commanded to go to the house of the king of Judah and demand that the king and his servants execute judgment, deliver the oppressed, and cease violence against strangers and the vulnerable. If they obey, the Davidic dynasty will continue; if they refuse, the house will become desolate. The chapter then pronounces specific judgment on kings Shallum and Jehoiakim: Shallum will die in captivity and never return to Judah, while Jehoiakim, who built by unrighteousness and oppression, will be buried like a donkey and his name forgotten, and his son Coniah will be childless and without prosperity.
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Jeremiah 22:3
“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 shed innocent blood in this place.”
Jeremiah 22:5
“But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.”
Jeremiah 22:18-19
“Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!”
Jeremiah 22:30
“Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.”
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