Jeremiah 22:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

Jeremiah 22:1 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 34:2
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
2 Chronicles 19:2-3
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. …
2 Samuel 24:11-12
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, …
Mark 6:18
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
2 Chronicles 33:10
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here we have, I. Orders given to Jeremiah to go and preach before the king. In the foregoing chapter we are told that Zedekiah sent messengers to the prophet, but here the prophet is bidden to go, in his own proper person, to the house of the king, and demand his attention to the word of the King of kings (Jer. 22:2): Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah! Subjects must own that where the wor…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Jr 22:1-30. Exhortation to Repentance; Judgment on Shallum, Jehoiakim, and Coniah. Belonging to an earlier period than the twenty-first chapter, namely, the reigns of Shallum or Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Jeconiah (Jr 22:10, 13, 20). Jeremiah often groups his prophecies, not by chronological order, but by similarity of subjects; thus Jr 22:3 corresponds to Jr 21:12. Grotius thinks that Jeremiah here…