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Jeremiah 22:17

1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 Kings 21:19; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Chronicles 36:8; 2 Kings 24:4; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 2:3; Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 5:3; Exodus 18:21; Ezekiel 19:6; Ezekiel 33:31; James 1:14; James 1:15; Jeremiah 22:3; Jeremiah 26:22; Job 31:7; Joshua 7:21; Luke 12:15; Luke 16:13; Luke 16:14; Mark 7:21; Mark 7:22; Psalms 10:3; Psalms 119:36; Psalms 119:37; Romans 1:29; Zephaniah 3:3

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See also Jeremiah 22:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    COVETOUSNESS - literally, gain. Besides exacting forced labor Jehoiakim, to procure the necessary means for the vast expenses he incurred, put innocent people to death on various pretexts, and escheat...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CONCERNING THE KINGS OF JUDAH (22:1-23:8) CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The message in the house of the king of Judah (Jeremiah 22:1) _ 2. Touching Shallum, the King of Judah (Jeremiah 22:11) 3. Concerning Jeho...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 22:1 TO JEREMIAH 23:8. This section contains several distinct Jeremianic prophecies, relating to contemporary kings of Judah; they have been editorially collected, probably with some expansio...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BUT THINE EYES: or, Verily, thou hast neither eyes nor heart save for, &c....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section. It probably belongs to the early years of Jehoiakim, but see on Jeremiah 22:18....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _covetousness_ better as mg. _dishonest gain_. Jehoiakim "remained fixed in the recollections of his countrymen, as the last example of those cruel, selfish, luxurious princes, the natural product of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _The folly of Jehoiakim_ (Jeremiah 22:13-23) TRANSLATION (13) Woe to him that builds his house with unrighteousness and his upper chambers with injustice; who makes his neighbor serve for nothing...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. BUT THINE - as opposed to thy father Josiah....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    22:17 But (f-1) Lit. 'For.' extortion, (g-11) Or 'over-reaching,' as 'covetousness,' Exodus 18:21 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. Call to amendment of life....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THY COVETOUSNESS. — More literally, _thy gain,_ the word used implying (as in Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:10) the idea of violence and oppression as the means by which it was obtained. The verb from whi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין עֵינֶ֨יךָ֙ וְ לִבְּךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI THE JUDGMENT ON JEHOIAKIM Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 36:30 "Jehoiakim slew him (Uriah) with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people."- Jeremiah 26:23...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The message Jeremiah gave the deputation was not enough. He was commanded to go to the house of the king. This he did, and what he there said occupies the succeeding Chapter s up to and including chap...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a solemn woe, this short but pointed sermon begins with: and what an awful close is made of it, in the application to the king. Is it not astonishing, that any Preacher, and at such a time; shoul...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here the Prophet expresses more clearly how much Jehoiakim differed from Josiah his father. He indeed shews that he was wholly unlike him, because Josiah had endeavored to observe what was equitable,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THINE EYES AND THINE HEART [ARE] NOT BUT FOR THY COVETOUSNESS,.... He was wholly intent upon gratifying that lust; his heart was meditating, contriving, and forming schemes for that purpose; and h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it]. Ver. 17. _But thine eyes and thy heart are not but...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness_ They are for that, and for nothing else. For this cause Jehoiakim is compared to a lion, by the Prophet Ezekiel 19:6. Observe, reader, i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECIES RELATING TO SHALLUM, JEHOIKIM, AND JEHOIACHIN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, being directed only to the gaining of his own advantage, regardless of the rights of other people, AND FOR TO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD AND F...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    VIOLENCE: Or, incursion...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-19 Here is a sentence of death upon two kings, the wicked sons of a very pious father. Josiah was prevented from seeing the evil to come in this world, and removed to see the good to come in the o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    All that thou lookest after, and that thy heart is set upon, is thy own grandeur and riches. And to make thyself great, thou makest no difficulty to destroy thy subjects that are innocent, and have no...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 22:17 eyes H5869 heart H3820 covetousness H1215 shedding H8210 (H8800) innocent H5355 blood H1818 practicing...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INADEQUACY OF ALL THE CURRENT SONS OF DAVID TO DELIVER JUDAH (JEREMIAH 22:10). Having dealt with Zedekiah, Nebuchadrezzar'a appointee, in the opening passage of the subsection, and having shown th...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INADEQUACY OF JEHOIAKIM (JEREMIAH 22:13). With Jehoahaz out of the way as a prospect hopes may have turned on Jehoiakim, whom Pharaoh had made king in place of his brother, having changed his name...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah, concluded. The King exhorted to execute judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Shallum, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: God never casts one off...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 22:10. _Weep not for the dead,_ as you have wept bitterly for king Josiah, but weep for him who goes into captivity, for he shall return no more. Jeremiah 22:11. _Shallum the son of Josiah._...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign; contemporary with chap. 22. See Notes. Dr. _Payne Smith_ places this prophecy prior to Jehoiakim’s manifestatio...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Jeremiah 22:1 and Jeremiah 23:1, are connected together by similarity of subject. The temporal and spiritual leaders of the people, who are mainly responsible for the national catastrophe,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the Lord commanded Jeremiah to go down to the king's house and speak there at the king's house this word. The other, it was a message sent back to the king. Now go on down to his house and speak t...

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