What does Jeremiah 22:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"That saith, I will build me a wide house and largea chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion."
LARGE CHAMBERS - spacious upper chambers. IT IS CIELED - Or, roofing it. VERMILION - The pigment which gives the deep red color still bright and untarnished on many ancient buildings....
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...
LARGE. airy, or roomy. WINDOWS. its windows. CIELED. panelled....
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...
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. A WIDE HOUSE - literally, a house of dimensions ...
22:14 wainscoted (c-24) Or 'covered,' 'ceiled,' as 1 Kings 6:9 ; Haggai 1:4 ....
1-9. Call to amendment of life....
LARGE CHAMBERS. — As before, “upper storeys _or_ chambers.” CUTTETH HIM OUT WINDOWS. — The verb is the same as that used in Jeremiah 4:30 for dilating the eyes by the use of antimony, and implies acc...
הָ אֹמֵ֗ר אֶבְנֶה ־לִּי֙ בֵּ֣ית מִדֹּ֔ות וַ עֲלִיֹּ֖ות מְרֻוָּחִ֑ים וְ קָ֤רַֽע לֹו֙ חַלֹּונָ֔י וְ...
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 "There...
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...
CHAPTER XXII. _ Wide. Hebrew, "measured;" large, and well-proportioned. --- Vermilion, ( cynopide.) This colour was invented in the town of Pontus, and was used for statues, &c. (Pliny, [Natural Hist...
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...
Some render the last words, “and painted with red;_” _but vermilion is a kind of red. They, indeed, mention three kinds of red, — deep red, brownish, and the third mixed with various colors; but vermi...
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...
THAT SAITH, I WILL BUILD ME A WIDE HOUSE,.... Or, "a house of measures", or, "dimensions" i; a very large house, whose length and breadth measure much consisting of many spacious rooms, upper as well...
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Ver. 14. _I will build me a wide house._] Heb., A...
_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...
LARGE: _ Heb._ through aired WINDOWS: Or, my windows...
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...
That is, Woe to that man, who suffering oppression in his government, or making it his business himself to oppress, yet buildeth himself great houses and large chambers, ceiling them with cedar, promi...
Jeremiah 22:14 says H559 (H8802) build H1129 (H8799) wide H4060 house H1004 spacious H7304 (H8794) chambers H5944 out H7167 (H8804) windows H2474 Paneling H5603 (H8803) cedar H730 painting H4886 (H880...
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 t...
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._...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 22:13 Jehoiakim (609–598 B.C.) built a palace for himself while his people suffered. He required his subjects to work on the project without compensation. Contrast this with...
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 3:5; 2 Samuel 7:2; Daniel 4:30; Haggai 1:4; Isaiah 5:8; Isaiah 5:9; Isaiah 9:9; Luke 14:28; Luke 14:29; Malachi 1:4;...