Verse Jeremiah 22:13. _WO UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH HIS HOUSE_] These evils, charged against Jehoiakim, are nowhere else _circumstantially_ related. We learn from 2 Kings 23:35-12, that he taxed his sub...
Far worse is the second example. Shallum was no heartless tyrant like Jehoiakim, who lived in splendor amid the misery of the nation, and perished so little cared for that his body was cast aside with...
CONCERNING THE KINGS OF JUDAH (22:1-23:8) CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The message in the house of the king of Judah (Jeremiah 22:1) _ 2. Touching Shallum, the King of Judah (Jeremiah 22:11) 3. Concerning Jeho...
JEREMIAH 22:1 TO JEREMIAH 23:8. This section contains several distinct Jeremianic prophecies, relating to contemporary kings of Judah; they have been editorially collected, probably with some expansio...
CHAMBERS. upper chambers. BY WRONG. in injustice. USETH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S SERVICE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:13). WORK. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the wages ea...
_that buildeth his house by unrighteousness_ Jehoiakim, as though it were not enough to involve the land in a heavy tribute to the king of Egypt (2 Kings 23:35), exacted forced labour from his own sub...
See introd. summary to section. It probably belongs to the early years of Jehoiakim, but see on Jeremiah 22:18....
WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH, &C.— The prophet proceeds to denounce God's judgments against Jehoiakim, who had built himself a stately palace in those calamitous times, and took no care to pay the wages...
2. _The folly of Jehoiakim_ (Jeremiah 22:13-23) TRANSLATION (13) Woe to him that builds his house with unrighteousness and his upper chambers with injustice; who makes his neighbor serve for nothing...
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH HIS...
1-9. Call to amendment of life....
WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH... — The prophet now turns to Jehoiakim, and apparently reproduces what he had before uttered in denouncing the selfish bearing of that king. The feelings of the people, alr...
הֹ֣וי בֹּנֶ֤ה בֵיתֹו֙ בְּֽ לֹא ־צֶ֔דֶק וַ
CHAPTER VI THE JUDGMENT ON JEHOIAKIM Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 36:30 "Jehoiakim slew him (Uriah) with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people."- Jeremiah 26:23...
The message Jeremiah gave the deputation was not enough. He was commanded to go to the house of the king. This he did, and what he there said occupies the succeeding Chapter s up to and including chap...
Woe to him that buildeth his house by (i) unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; (i) By bribes and extortion....
_Friend. Joakim forced his subjects to work for him for nothing._...
What a solemn woe, this short but pointed sermon begins with: and what an awful close is made of it, in the application to the king. Is it not astonishing, that any Preacher, and at such a time; shoul...
_A BAD FOUNDATION_ ‘Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice.’ Jeremiah 22:13 (R.V.) I. THIS DENUNCIATION WAS PROBABLY AGAINST THE KING HIMSELF.—But it...
The Prophet begins here to shew that it could not be otherwise but that the king’s palace as well as Jerusalem must be destroyed, for their wickedness had arrived to the highest pitch; but he now, as...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH HIS HOUSE BY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HIS CHAMBERS BY WRONG,.... This respects Jehoiakim, the then reigning king; who, not content with the palace the kings of Judah before him ha...
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; Ver. 13. _Woe unto him that bu...
_Wo unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,_ &c. “The prophet proceeds to denounce God's judgments against Jehoiakim, (see Jeremiah 22:18,) who, it seems, built himself a stately palace i...
PROPHECIES RELATING TO SHALLUM, JEHOIKIM, AND JEHOIACHIN...
Woe unto him, so the Lord now proceeds to call out upon Jehoiakim, THAT BUILDETH HIS HOUSE BY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, by unjust measures, AND HIS CHAMBERS BY WRONG, in impressing people into work without rig...
10-19 Here is a sentence of death upon two kings, the wicked sons of a very pious father. Josiah was prevented from seeing the evil to come in this world, and removed to see the good to come in the o...
We have not here any certain guidance to let us know whether the prophet intended Jehoahaz or Jehoiakim; both of them _did evil in the sight of the Lord_, as we read in their story. The sin here refle...
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THE INADEQUACY OF JEHOIAKIM (JEREMIAH 22:13). With Jehoahaz out of the way as a prospect hopes may have turned on Jehoiakim, whom Pharaoh had made king in place of his brother, having changed his name...
THE INADEQUACY OF ALL THE CURRENT SONS OF DAVID TO DELIVER JUDAH (JEREMIAH 22:10). Having dealt with Zedekiah, Nebuchadrezzar'a appointee, in the opening passage of the subsection, and having shown th...
CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah, concluded. The King exhorted to execute judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Shallum, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: God never casts one off...
Jeremiah 22:10. _Weep not for the dead,_ as you have wept bitterly for king Josiah, but weep for him who goes into captivity, for he shall return no more. Jeremiah 22:11. _Shallum the son of Josiah._...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign; contemporary with chap. 22. See Notes. Dr. _Payne Smith_ places this prophecy prior to Jehoiakim’s manifestatio...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 22:1 and Jeremiah 23:1, are connected together by similarity of subject. The temporal and spiritual leaders of the people, who are mainly responsible for the national catastrophe,...
Now the Lord commanded Jeremiah to go down to the king's house and speak there at the king's house this word. The other, it was a message sent back to the king. Now go on down to his house and speak t...
2 Chronicles 36:4; 2 Kings 23:35; Deuteronomy 24:14; Deuteronomy 24:15;...