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Jeremiah 22
A Warning to Judah’s Kings
1This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
2saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
5But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
A Warning about the Palace
6For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah:
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8And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
9Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
A Warning about Shallum
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11For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallumson of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
12but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
A Warning about Jehoiakim
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18Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
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A Warning to Coniah
24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniahson of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
25In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
26I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
27You will never return to the land for which you long.”
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