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9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

Jeremiah 22:9

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Matthew Henry

(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 w...

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