Jer 22 | TSK | STEP | He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats. The judgment of Shallum; of Jehoiakim; and of Coniah. A.M. cir. 3406. B.C. cir. 598. Go.

Thou.Gilead was the most fertile part of the country, and renowned for its rich pastures; and Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, celebrated for its stately cedars; and both were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. "But though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down, and make thee a wilderness."

surely.

4:20; 7:34; 9:11; 19:7,8; 21:14; 25:9,10; 26:6-9,18; Ps 107:34

Isa 6:11; 24:1-6; 27:10; Eze 33:27,28

4:6,7; 5:15; 50:20-23; Isa 10:3-7; 13:3-5; 54:16,17; Eze 9:1-7

Mt 22:7

cut.

21:14; Isa 10:33,34; 27:10,11; 37:24; Zec 11:1

De 29:23-25; 1Ki 9:8,9; 2Ch 7:20-22; La 2:15-17; 4:12; Da 9:7

2:17-19; 40:2,3; 50:7; De 29:25-28; 2Ki 22:17; 2Ch 34:25

Weep ye.

2Ki 22:20; 23:30; 2Ch 35:23-25; Ec 4:2; Isa 57:1; La 4:9; Lu 23:28

weep sore.

11; 2Ki 23:30-34; Eze 19:3,4

Shallum.

1Ch 3:15; 2Ch 28:12; 34:22; 36:1-4

Jehoahaz.

18; 2Ki 23:34

unto.

18; 2Ki 23:35-37; 2Ch 36:4

buildeth.

Le 19:13; De 24:14,15; Job 24:10,11; Mic 3:10; Hab 2:9-11

Mal 3:5; Jas 5:4

I will.

Pr 17:19; 24:27; Isa 5:8,9; 9:9; Da 4:30; Mal 1:4; Lu 14:28,29

large. Heb. through-aired. windows, or, my windows. ceiledwith cedar.

2Sa 7:2; 2Ch 3:5; So 1:17; Hag 1:4

thy.

18; 2Ki 23:25; 1Ch 3:15

eat.

1Ki 4:20-23; 2Ch 35:7,8,12-18; Ec 2:24; 9:7-10; 10:17; Isa 33:16

Lu 11:41; Ac 2:46; 1Co 10:31

and do.

3; 21:12; 23:5; 2Sa 8:15; 1Ki 10:9; 2Ki 22:2; 23:25; 2Ch 34:2

Pr 20:28; 21:3; 25:5; 29:4; 31:9; Isa 9:7

then.

42:6; De 4:40; Ps 128:1,2; Isa 3:10

judged.

5:28; Job 29:12-17; Ps 72:1-4,12,13; 82:3,4; 109:31; Pr 24:11,12

Isa 1:17

was not.

9:3,16,24; 31:33,34; 1Sa 2:2; 1Ch 28:9; Ps 9:10; Joh 8:19,54,55

Joh 16:3; 17:3,6; Tit 1:16; 1Jo 2:3,4

thine eyes.

Jos 7:21; Job 31:7; Ps 119:36,37; Eze 19:6; 33:31; Mr 7:21,22

Jas 1:14,15; 2Pe 2:14; 1Jo 2:15,16

covetousness.

Ex 18:21; Ps 10:3; Lu 12:15-21; 16:13,14; Ro 1:29; 1Co 6:10

Eph 5:3-5; Col 3:5; 1Ti 6:9,10; 2Pe 2:3,14

to shed.

3; 26:22-24; 1Ki 21:19; 2Ki 24:4; 2Ch 36:8; Eze 19:6; Zep 3:3

violence. or, incursion.

They.

10; 16:4,6; 2Ch 21:19,20; 35:25

Ah my brother.

2Sa 1:26; 3:33-38; 1Ki 13:30

15:3; 36:6,30; 1Ki 14:10; 21:23,24; 2Ki 9:35; 2Ch 36:6

and cry.

2:36,37; 30:13-15; 2Ki 24:7; Isa 20:5,6; 30:1-7; 31:1-3

for.

22; 4:30; 25:9,17-27; La 1:2,19; Eze 23:9,22

I spake.

2:31; 6:16; 35:15; 36:21-26; 2Ch 33:10; 36:16,17; Pr 30:9

prosperity. Heb. prosperities. This.

3:25; 7:22-28; 32:30; De 9:7,24; 31:27; 32:15-20; Jud 2:11-19

Ne 9:16-37; Ps 106:6-48; Isa 48:8; Eze 20:8,13,21,28; 23:3-39

wind.

4:11-13; 30:23,24; Isa 64:6; Ho 4:19; 13:15

thy pastors.

2:8; 5:30,31; 10:21; 12:10; 23:1,2; Eze 34:2-10; Zec 11:8,17

Ac 7:51,52

thy lovers.

surely.

2:26,27,37; 20:11

inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Lebanon.

6; Zec 11:1,2

makest.

21:13; 48:28; 49:16; Nu 24:21; Am 9:2; Ob 1:4; Hab 2:9

how.

3:21; 4:31; 6:24; 30:5,6; 50:4,5; Ho 5:15; 6:1; 7:14

when.

4:30,31

Coniah.

Jehoiachin.

Jeconiah.

the signet.

28; 21:7; 34:20,21; 38:16; 2Ki 24:15,16

whose.

Pr 10:24

15:2-4; 2Ki 24:15; 2Ch 36:9,10; Isa 22:17; Eze 19:9-14

to the.

11; 44:14; 52:31-34; 2Ki 25:27-30

desire. Heb. lift up their mind.

Ps 86:4

Is.This appears to be the application of the whole discourse to Zedekiah; for it is to be observed, that Jeconiah is spoken of as absent, and already in captivity. Now if he and his seed had been for their sins thrown aside as a broken idol, or as a vessel which a man despises, how could Zedekiah, who copied and far exceeded them, expect to prosper on the throne of David?

Coniah.

a despised.

48:38; 1Sa 5:3-5; 2Sa 5:21; Ps 31:12; Ho 8:8; 13:15; Ro 9:21-23

2Ti 2:20,21

his seed.

30; 1Ch 3:17-24; Mt 1:12-16

which.

14:18

6:19; De 4:26; 31:19; 32:1; Isa 1:1,2; 34:1; Mic 1:2; 6:1,2

Write.Zedekiah was taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar; his sons slain before his eyes; and his eyes being put out, he was carried to Babylon; and we read no more either of him or his posterity.

1Ch 3:16,17; Mt 1:12-16

sitting.

36:30; Ps 94:20; Lu 1:32,33; Mt 1:11,12