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Jeremiah Chapter 22

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Jeremiah

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Jeremiah confronts the people and the king about their pride and the construction of a high place and the king's house. The chapter warns that their rebellion will bring disaster and that the covenant will be broken. It emphasizes the seriousness of their actions and the need for repentance.

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(1) Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
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Jeremiah 21:11Jeremiah 34:2I Samuel 15:16I Samuel 15:17I Samuel 15:18I Samuel 15:19I Samuel 15:20I Samuel 15:21I Samuel 15:22I Samuel 15:23II Samuel 12:1II Samuel 24:11

(2) And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
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Jeremiah 22:29Jeremiah 13:18Jeremiah 17:20Jeremiah 17:21Jeremiah 17:22Jeremiah 17:23Jeremiah 17:24Jeremiah 17:25Jeremiah 17:26Jeremiah 17:27Jeremiah 19:3Jeremiah 29:20

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Revelation 21:13Jeremiah 17:25Jeremiah 22:4Ezekiel 26:10Ezekiel 44:17Revelation 4:6

(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.
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Jeremiah 5:28Jeremiah 9:24Jeremiah 21:12Exodus 23:6Exodus 23:7Exodus 23:8Exodus 23:9Leviticus 19:15Deuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 16:19Deuteronomy 16:20Deuteronomy 25:1

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Jeremiah 7:6Deuteronomy 10:18Jeremiah 21:12Jeremiah 33:15Deuteronomy 27:19Malachi 3:5

(4) For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
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Jeremiah 17:25

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Jeremiah 17:25Ezekiel 26:10Revelation 21:13Jeremiah 22:2Ezekiel 44:17II Chronicles 9:18

(5) But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
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Jeremiah 17:27II Chronicles 7:19II Chronicles 7:22Isaiah 1:20Genesis 22:16Numbers 14:28Numbers 14:29Numbers 14:30Deuteronomy 32:40Deuteronomy 32:41Deuteronomy 32:42Psalms 95:11

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Jeremiah 49:13

(6) For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
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Jeremiah 22:24Jeremiah 21:11Genesis 37:25Deuteronomy 3:25Song of Solomon 5:15Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 19:7Jeremiah 19:8Jeremiah 21:14Jeremiah 25:9

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Esther 8:8Jeremiah 44:25I Chronicles 5:9Esther 3:3Esther 3:12Judges 11:29

(7) And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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Jeremiah 4:6Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 5:15Jeremiah 50:20Jeremiah 50:21Jeremiah 50:22Jeremiah 50:23Isaiah 10:3Isaiah 10:4Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 10:7

(8) And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
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Deuteronomy 29:23Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25I Kings 9:8I Kings 9:9II Chronicles 7:20II Chronicles 7:21II Chronicles 7:22Lamentations 2:15Lamentations 2:16Lamentations 2:17Lamentations 4:12

(9) Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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Jeremiah 2:17Jeremiah 2:18Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 40:2Jeremiah 40:3Jeremiah 50:7Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 34:25

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Judges 10:6Jeremiah 16:11Deuteronomy 29:26I Kings 9:9Jeremiah 5:19Exodus 34:15

(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.
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II Kings 22:20II Kings 23:30II Chronicles 35:23II Chronicles 35:24II Chronicles 35:25Ecclesiastes 4:2Isaiah 57:1Lamentations 4:9Luke 23:28Jeremiah 22:11II Kings 23:31II Kings 23:32

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Jeremiah 13:17Song of Solomon 6:13Luke 23:28Romans 12:15John 11:31Ruth 1:6

(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:
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I Chronicles 3:15II Chronicles 28:12II Chronicles 34:22II Chronicles 36:1II Chronicles 36:2II Chronicles 36:3II Chronicles 36:4

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Isaiah 3:24Jeremiah 37:1Song of Solomon 6:13II Kings 23:34II Chronicles 35:20II Chronicles 35:25

(12) But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
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Jeremiah 22:18II Kings 23:34

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Amos 7:11Romans 14:8

(13) 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;
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Jeremiah 22:18II Kings 23:35II Kings 23:36II Kings 23:37II Chronicles 36:4Leviticus 19:13Deuteronomy 24:14Deuteronomy 24:15Job 24:10Job 24:11Micah 3:10Habakkuk 2:9

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Ezekiel 29:18I Chronicles 23:28Exodus 20:17Deuteronomy 5:21Revelation 8:13Ezekiel 42:13

(14) 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.
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Proverbs 17:19Proverbs 24:27Isaiah 5:8Isaiah 5:9Isaiah 9:9Daniel 4:30Malachi 1:4Luke 14:28Luke 14:29II Samuel 7:2II Chronicles 3:5Song of Solomon 1:17

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Ezekiel 41:16Ezekiel 40:16Ezekiel 42:13

(15) 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?
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Jeremiah 22:18II Kings 23:25I Chronicles 3:15I Kings 4:20I Kings 4:21I Kings 4:22I Kings 4:23II Chronicles 35:7II Chronicles 35:8II Chronicles 35:12II Chronicles 35:13II Chronicles 35:14

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II Kings 4:26Deuteronomy 1:17Job 36:17Jeremiah 23:5

(16) He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 5:28Job 29:12Job 29:13Job 29:14Job 29:15Job 29:16Job 29:17Psalms 72:1Psalms 72:2Psalms 72:3Psalms 72:4Psalms 72:12

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II Kings 4:26Deuteronomy 15:11Psalms 35:10Psalms 72:13

(17) But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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Joshua 7:21Job 31:7Psalms 119:36Psalms 119:37Ezekiel 19:6Ezekiel 33:31Mark 7:21Mark 7:22James 1:14James 1:15II Peter 2:14I John 2:15

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Jeremiah 22:3Joel 3:19II Kings 24:4

(18) 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!
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Jeremiah 22:10Jeremiah 16:4Jeremiah 16:6II Chronicles 21:19II Chronicles 21:20II Chronicles 35:25II Samuel 1:26II Samuel 3:33II Samuel 3:34II Samuel 3:35II Samuel 3:36II Samuel 3:37

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Jeremiah 34:5Ezekiel 32:16Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Psalms 35:25Isaiah 1:4

(19) He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 15:3Jeremiah 36:6Jeremiah 36:30I Kings 14:10I Kings 21:23I Kings 21:24II Kings 9:35II Chronicles 36:6

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Numbers 22:23Revelation 21:13Genesis 49:31Nehemiah 13:19

(20) Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
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Jeremiah 2:36Jeremiah 2:37Jeremiah 30:13Jeremiah 30:14Jeremiah 30:15II Kings 24:7Isaiah 20:5Isaiah 20:6Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:3Isaiah 30:4

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Jeremiah 11:14Exodus 22:23Job 19:7Job 34:28Job 35:9Psalms 141:1

(21) I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
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Jeremiah 2:31Jeremiah 6:16Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 36:21Jeremiah 36:22Jeremiah 36:23Jeremiah 36:24Jeremiah 36:25Jeremiah 36:26II Chronicles 33:10II Chronicles 36:16II Chronicles 36:17

(22) The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
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Jeremiah 4:11Jeremiah 4:12Jeremiah 4:13Jeremiah 30:23Jeremiah 30:24Isaiah 64:6Hosea 4:19Hosea 13:15Jeremiah 2:8Jeremiah 5:30Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 10:21

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Jeremiah 44:9Ezekiel 16:53Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 44:25I Kings 19:11

(23) O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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Jeremiah 22:6Zechariah 11:1Zechariah 11:2Jeremiah 21:13Jeremiah 48:28Jeremiah 49:16Numbers 24:21Amos 9:2Obadiah 1:4Habakkuk 2:9Jeremiah 3:21Jeremiah 4:31

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II Kings 14:9II Chronicles 25:18Psalms 29:5Isaiah 21:3

(24) As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
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Jeremiah 22:28Jeremiah 37:1II Kings 24:6II Kings 24:7II Kings 24:8I Chronicles 3:16Matthew 1:11Matthew 1:12Jeremiah 22:6Song of Solomon 8:6Haggai 2:23

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Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Obadiah 1:4Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Jeremiah 4:30

(25) And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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Jeremiah 22:28Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 34:20Jeremiah 34:21Jeremiah 38:16II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16Proverbs 10:24

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I Samuel 12:3Ezra 5:14Isaiah 43:14Ezekiel 17:16Philippians 3:19Jeremiah 21:7

(26) And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
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Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 15:3Jeremiah 15:4II Kings 24:15II Chronicles 36:9II Chronicles 36:10Isaiah 22:17Ezekiel 19:9Ezekiel 19:10Ezekiel 19:11Ezekiel 19:12Ezekiel 19:13

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Luke 12:53II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Matthew 15:4Mark 7:10Romans 14:8

(27) But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
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Jeremiah 22:11Jeremiah 44:14Jeremiah 52:31Jeremiah 52:32Jeremiah 52:33Jeremiah 52:34II Kings 25:27II Kings 25:28II Kings 25:29II Kings 25:30Psalms 86:4

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 44:14Jeremiah 15:19Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7Genesis 3:19

(28) Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
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Jeremiah 48:38I Samuel 5:3I Samuel 5:4I Samuel 5:5II Samuel 5:21Psalms 31:12Hosea 8:8Hosea 13:15Romans 9:21Romans 9:22Romans 9:23II Timothy 2:20

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Jeremiah 48:38Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Leviticus 6:28Leviticus 11:32Hosea 8:8

(29) O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
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Jeremiah 6:19Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 31:19Deuteronomy 32:1Isaiah 1:1Isaiah 1:2Isaiah 34:1Micah 1:2Micah 6:1Micah 6:2

(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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I Chronicles 3:16I Chronicles 3:17Matthew 1:12Matthew 1:13Matthew 1:14Matthew 1:15Matthew 1:16Jeremiah 36:30Psalms 94:20Luke 1:32Luke 1:33Matthew 1:11

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Genesis 26:4I Kings 2:33Ecclesiastes 11:6Isaiah 53:10Jeremiah 33:26II Chronicles 9:18

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