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Hebrew Names Version

Jeremiah 22:1

Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Yehudah, and speak there this word,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Justice;   Rulers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoiakim;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Maktesh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there.
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord ; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
English Standard Version
Thus says the Lord : "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word,
New American Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there speak this word,
New Century Version
This is what the Lord says: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and prophesy this message there:
Amplified Bible
Thus says the LORD, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak this word there:
World English Bible
Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus said the Lorde, Goe downe to the house of the King of Iudah, and speake there this thing,
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Yahweh, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there you shall speak this word
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord sent me to the palace of the king of Judah to speak to the king, his officials, and everyone else who was there. The Lord told me to say: I am the Lord , so pay attention! You have been allowing people to cheat, rob, and take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners who live here. Innocent people have become victims of violence, and some of them have even been killed. But now I command you to do what is right and see that justice is done. Rescue everyone who has suffered from injustice.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said, "Go down to the house of the king of Y'hudah and there speak this word:
Darby Translation
Thus saith Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said, "Jeremiah, go down to the king's palace. Go to the king of Judah and tell this message there:
George Lamsa Translation
THUS says the LORD: GO down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, and say,
Good News Translation
The Lord told me to go to the palace of the king of Judah, the descendant of David, and there tell the king, his officials, and the people of Jerusalem to listen to what the Lord had said:
Lexham English Bible
Thus says Yahweh: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and you must speak this word there.
Literal Translation
So says Jehovah, Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak this Word there,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus sayde the LORDE also: Go downe in to the house of the kinge off Iuda, and speake there these wordes,
American Standard Version
Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord, Goe downe to the house of the king of Iudah, and speake there this word,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lord: Go downe into the house of the kyng of Iuda, and speake there these wordes,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord; Go thou, and go down to the house of the king of Juda, and thou shalt speak there this word,
English Revised Version
Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord seith these thingis, Go thou doun in to the hous of the kyng of Juda, and thou schalt speke there this word, and schalt seie,
Update Bible Version
Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
New English Translation
The Lord told me, "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.
New King James Version
Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word,
New Living Translation
This is what the Lord said to me: "Go over and speak directly to the king of Judah. Say to him,
New Life Bible
The Lord says, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there.
New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord : Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, said Yahweh, Go thou down to the house of king of Judah, and speak thou there this word,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda, and there thou shalt speak this word,
Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah, `Go down [to] the house of the king of Judah, and thou hast spoken there this word, and hast said,
THE MESSAGE
God 's orders: "Go to the royal palace and deliver this Message. Say, ‘Listen to what God says, O King of Judah, you who sit on David's throne—you and your officials and all the people who go in and out of these palace gates. This is God 's Message: Attend to matters of justice. Set things right between people. Rescue victims from their exploiters. Don't take advantage of the homeless, the orphans, the widows. Stop the murdering!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus says the LORD, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word

Contextual Overview

1 Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Yehudah, and speak there this word, 2 Say, Hear the word of the LORD, king of Yehudah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates. 3 Thus says the LORD: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. 5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. 6 For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Yehudah: You are Gil`ad to me, [and] the head of Levanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited. 7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. 8 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city? 9 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

Bible Verse Review
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Go: Jeremiah 21:11, Jeremiah 34:2, 1 Samuel 15:16-23, 2 Samuel 12:1, 2 Samuel 24:11, 2 Samuel 24:12, 1 Kings 21:18-20, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 25:15, 2 Chronicles 25:16, 2 Chronicles 33:10, Hosea 5:1, Amos 7:13, Mark 6:18, Luke 3:19, Luke 3:20

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:10 - the king Isaiah 7:3 - Go forth Isaiah 39:3 - came Isaiah Jeremiah 1:18 - against Jeremiah 7:2 - Stand Zechariah 11:17 - Woe Acts 5:20 - stand

Cross-References

Genesis 22:7
Yitzchak spoke to Avraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Genesis 22:11
The angel of the LORD called to him out of the sky, and said, "Avraham, Avraham!" He said, "Here I am."
Genesis 22:12
He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Genesis 22:14
Avraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh. As it is said to this day, "In the LORD's mountain it will be provided.
Exodus 3:4
When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moshe! Moshe!" He said, "Here I am."
Exodus 16:4
Then said the LORD to Moshe, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:2
You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his mitzvot, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
Deuteronomy 13:3
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Judges 2:22
that by them I may prove Yisra'el, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, go down to the house of the king of Judah,.... To the palace of Jehoiakim, who was now the reigning king; the prophet is bid to go down to it, because, as Kimchi thinks, he was now upon the mountain of the house, or in the temple, from whence to the king's house there was a descent:

and speak there this word; of prophecy, relating to the several kings hereafter mentioned. This prophecy was delivered some years before that in the preceding chapter, though it stands here. It is indeed by some thought to be repeated here on occasion of what is before said, and for the confirmation of it, putting in mind of what he had prophesied in former times: and they render the words, with which it begins, "thus hath the Lord said" x; so he said to me years ago; which agrees with what is now delivered.

x כה אמר "haec dixit", Grotius; "sic dixit", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Go down - i. e., from the temple to the king’s house. Compare 2 Chronicles 23:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXII

This section of prophecy, extending to the end of the eighth

verse of the next chapter, is addressed to the king of Judah

and his people. It enjoins on them the practice of justice and

equity, as they would hope to prosper, 14;

but threatens them, in case of disobedience, with utter

destruction, 5-9.

The captivity of Shallum, the son of Josiah, is declared to be

irreversible, 10-12;

and the miserable and unlamented end of Jeconiah,

contemptuously called Coniah, is foretold, 13-19.

His family is threatened with the like captivity, and his seed

declared to be for ever excluded from the throne, 20-30.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXII

Verse Jeremiah 22:1. Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word — This is supposed by Dahler to have been published in the first year of the reign of Zedekiah.


 
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