Jeremiah 22

Treated in 8 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 22:13 Woe to the man who builds his palace without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his fellow citizens work for nothing and does not pay them their wages. 2
  • 22:21 I spoke to you while you felt secure, but you said, "I will not listen." Ever since you were young you have behaved like this: you have not obeyed my voice. 2
  • 22:3 The LORD says this: Practice justice and righteousness. Rescue anyone who has been robbed from the power of the oppressor. Do not mistreat the outsider, the orphan or the widow, do not use violence against them, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. 1
  • 22:15 Does it make you a king to outdo others in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and also do justice and righteousness? Then all went well with him. 1
  • 22:16 He defended the cause of the poor and the needy, and then all was well. Is that not what it means to know me? declares the LORD. 1
  • 22:28 Is this man Coniah a worthless, broken pot, a jar that no one wants? Why have he and his children been hurled out and thrown into a land they do not know? 1

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Where it is preached

  1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Jer. 22:15

    …Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.” Jer. 22:15, 16, “Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? He judged the cause…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government cites Jer. 22:3

    …no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood” (Jer. 22:3). To the same effect is the exhortation in the Psalm, “Defend the poor and fatherless; do…

  3. The Key Teachings of George Whitefield · Ochorus Originals

    Bethesda and Its Shadow cites JEREMIAH 22:13

    …wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. JEREMIAH 22:13 What must be said There is no way to soften this, and no Christian should try. Whitefield…

  4. The Key Teachings of John Wesley · Ochorus Originals

    The Use of Money cites JEREMIAH 22:13

    …wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. JEREMIAH 22:13 Save all you can The second rule is save all you can, and Wesley means something…

  5. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites Jer. 22:16

    …God, hath mercy on the poor.” Prov. 21:26, “The righteous giveth, and spareth not.” Jer. 22:16, “He judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was well with him: Was not this to…

  6. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    October cites Jer. xxii. 21

    …the brighter it shineth.—Bishop Jewel. October 17 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity. Jer. xxii. 21. We shade our eyes with the hand to shut out the glare of the strong daylight when we…

  7. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Joy cites Jer 22:21

    …make us worse. ‘I spake unto thee in thy prosperity, but thou saidst, I will not hear.’ Jer 22:21. Pride and luxury are the two worms that are bred of worldly pleasures. ‘Wine takes away…

  8. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Jer. xxii. 28

    …them. And, “If any man draw back, the Lord’s soul hath no pleasure in him,” Heb. x. 38; Jer. xxii. 28; Hos. viii. 8; Mal. i. 10. He takes pleasure in those that abide with him. He sings to…