Jeremiah 22:1

1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,

Jeremiah 22:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 22:1

Thus saith the Lord, go down to the house of the king of
Judah
To the palace of Jehoiakim, who was now the reigning king; the prophet is bid to go down to it, because, as Kimchi thinks, he was now upon the mountain of the house, or in the temple, from whence to the king's house there was a descent: and speak there this word;
of prophecy, relating to the several kings hereafter mentioned. This prophecy was delivered some years before that in the preceding chapter, though it stands here. It is indeed by some thought to be repeated here on occasion of what is before said, and for the confirmation of it, putting in mind of what he had prophesied in former times: and they render the words, with which it begins, "thus hath the Lord said" ^F24; so he said to me years ago; which agrees with what is now delivered.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (rma hk) "haec dixit", Grotius; "sic dixit", Schmidt.

Jeremiah 22:1 In-Context

1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,

2 And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.

3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people

5 But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.