Jeremiah 22:8-9

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:1-30

1-9. Call to amendment of life.1. Go down] The king’s house was on lower ground than the Temple: cp. Jeremiah 36:12. 3. The reference is to the special crimes of Jehoiakim more fully stated in Jeremiah 36:13: cp. 2 Kings 23:35. He oppressed his people in order that though paying tribute to Necho he might yet build himself sumptuous palaces. Neither shed innocent blood] For his sins in this respect cp. Jeremiah 26:20. 4. Cp. Jeremiah 17:25. 6. Gilead, with its balm (Jeremiah 8:22) and its flocks... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 22:8-9

(8, 9) Wherefore hath the Lord done thus . . .—The coincidence of thought and language with Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 29:24-26) again calls for notice. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 22:1-30

The Woes of the Unjust Jeremiah 22:13 The whole law is contained in these words, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself'. These two parts cannot be separated. God places us among our own kind, and our character cannot be formed and our souls saved without doing justly and loving mercy, while we walk humbly with our God. If we are servants, we are to do honest work for our masters; and if we are masters, we are to give equitable wages to our servants.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:1-9

CHAPTER XXIXRUINJeremiah 22:1-9; Jeremiah 26:14"The sword, the pestilence, and the famine,"- Jeremiah 21:9 and passim."Terror on every side."- Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29; also as proper name, MAGOR-MISSABIB, Jeremiah 20:3.WE have seen, in the two previous chapters, that the moral and religious state of Judah not only excluded any hope of further progress towards the realisation of the Kingdom of God, but also threatened to involve Revelation itself in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:9

CHAPTER XXVIIIPERSISTENT APOSTASY"They have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them."- Jeremiah 22:9"Every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart."- Jeremiah 23:17THE previous chapter has been intentionally confined, as far as possible, to Jeremiah’s teaching upon the moral condition of Judah. Religion, in the narrower sense, was kept in the background, and mainly referred to as a social and political influence. In the same way the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 22:1-30

Concerning the Kings of Judah (22:1-23:8) CHAPTER 22 1. The message in the house of the king of Judah (Jeremiah 22:1-9 ) 2. Touching Shallum, the King of Judah (Jeremiah 22:11-12 ) 3. Concerning Jehoiakim and his fate (Jeremiah 22:13-19 ) 4. Concerning Coniah and his fate (Jeremiah 22:20-30 ) Jeremiah 22:1-10 . What a figure Jeremiah was as he stood, obedient to the divine command, before the royal palace to deliver his God-given message! The door of mercy still is open. Let them... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 22:8

22:8 {f} And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Why hath the LORD done thus to this great city?(f) As they who wonder at a thing which they thought would never have come to pass, De 29:24, 1 Kings 9:8 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:1-30

MESSAGES IN ZEDEKIAH ’S REIGN These chapters furnish a convenient unit, as they are apparently a group of discourses delivered in Zedekiah’s reign the king of the captivity period. The first, and one of the most interesting, is that concerning the siege (chap. 21). Note the occasion (Jeremiah 21:1-2 ) and observe that Pashur was not he of the last lesson. The siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar had begun and the king of Judah hoped the prophet would have some encouraging word from God for... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Jeremiah 22:1-30

The Coming One Jeremiah 22:0 , Jeremiah 23:0 The particular reference is to Josiah, on the occasion of whose death Jeremiah had composed a grand and pathetic dirge. It is supposed from 2Ch 35:25 that this dirge was repeated annually in memory of Josiah's death. The injunction of the text puts an end to this annual commemoration. The weeping is forbidden in the case of Josiah, but it is ordered to continue in the case of Jehoahaz ( Jehovah sustains .) Jehoahaz was probably a name assumed by... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 22:6-9

Nothing can be more tender and endearing on the part of God, to show his reluctancy to punish. Comparing his city, and his people, to Gilead and Lebanon, are striking expressions. Gilead and Lebanon were very lovely and flourishing: but the most lovely places, if brought under God's displeasure, soon become a wilderness. Reader! think what a Gilead and Lebanon was our nature before sin marred it. Oh! what a desolation by sin! The world, the Lord saith, shall look with astonishment, on the... read more

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