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Jeremiah 22

Jer. 22:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Shalt thou reign
malak (Hebrew #4427)
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
KJV usage: consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root
, because thou closest
tacharah (Hebrew #8474)
to vie with a rival
KJV usage: close, contend.
Pronounce: takh-aw-raw'
Origin: a facitious root from 2734 through the idea of the heat of jealousy
thyself in cedar
'erez (Hebrew #730)
a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots)
KJV usage: cedar (tree).
Pronounce: eh-rez'
Origin: from 729
? did not thy father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
n eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
and drink
shathah (Hebrew #8354)
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X assuredly, banquet, X certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (X -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
, and do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
and justice
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
, and then it was well
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
with him?
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2 Kings 23:25• 25{i}And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.{/i} (2 Kings 23:25)

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Jer. 22:18• 18Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! (Jer. 22:18)
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2 Kings 23:25• 25{i}And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.{/i} (2 Kings 23:25)
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1 Chron. 3:15• 15{i}And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.{/i} (1 Chron. 3:15)
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1 Kings 4:20‑23• 20{i}Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.{/i}
 21{i}And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.{/i}
 22{i}And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,{/i}
 23{i}ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.{/i} (1 Kings 4:20‑23)
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2 Chron. 35:7‑8,12‑18• 7{i}And Josiah gave for the children of the people a heave-offering of the flocks, lambs and goats, all for the Passover-offerings, for all that were present—to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.{/i}
 8{i}And his princes gave a voluntary heave-offering for the people, for the priests, and for the Levites: Hilkijah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover-offerings two thousand six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen;{/i}
 12{i}And they set apart the burnt-offerings to give them to the classes of the fathers' houses of the children of the people, to present them to Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.{/i}
 13{i}And they roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance; and the consecrated things they boiled in pots and in cauldrons and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the children of the people.{/i}
 14{i}And afterwards they made ready for themselves and for the priests; because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were engaged in offering up the burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.{/i}
 15{i}And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the doorkeepers were at every gate; they had not to depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.{/i}
 16{i}And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to hold the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah.{/i}
 17{i}And the children of Israel that were present held the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.{/i}
 18{i}And there was no Passover like to that holden in Israel{/i} since the days of Samuel. {i}neither did all the kings of Israel hold such a Passover as Josiah held, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.{/i} (2 Chron. 35:7‑8,12‑18)
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Eccl. 2:24• 24[There] is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink,{HR}And make his soul enjoy good in his labour.{HR}This also I saw, that it [is] from the hand of God. (Eccl. 2:24)
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Eccl. 9:7‑10• 7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy,{HR}And drink thy wine with a merry heart;{HR}For God hath already accepted thy works.
 8Let thy garments be always white,{HR}And let not thy head lack unguent.
 9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest{HR}All the days of the life of thy vanity,{HR}Which he hath given thee under the sun,{HR}All the days of thy vanity:{HR}For that is thy portion in life,{HR}And in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.
 10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,{HR}Do with thy might;{HR}For there is no work, nor device,{HR}Nor knowledge, nor wisdom,{HR}In Sheol whither thou goest. (Eccl. 9:7‑10)
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Eccl. 10:17• 17Happy art thou, O land,{HR}When thy king is the son of nobles,{HR}And thy princes eat in due season,{HR}For strength, and not for drunkenness! (Eccl. 10:17)
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Isa. 33:16• 16he shall dwell on high, his high retreat [shall be] the fortresses of the rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure. (Isa. 33:16)
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Luke 11:41• 41{i}But{/i} rather give alms of what ye have: and, behold, all things are clean unto you. (Luke 11:41)
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Acts 2:46• 46And day by day, continuing with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they did take their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, (Acts 2:46)
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1 Cor. 10:31• 31Whether then ye eat or drink or do anything, do all things unto God's glory. (1 Cor. 10:31)
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Jer. 22:3• 3Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. (Jer. 22:3)
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Jer. 21:12• 12O house of David, thus saith Jehovah; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. (Jer. 21:12)
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Jer. 23:5• 5Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. (Jer. 23:5)
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2 Sam. 8:15• 15And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. (2 Sam. 8:15)
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1 Kings 10:9• 9{i}Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel! Because Jehovah loves Israel forever, therefore did he make thee king, to do judgment and justice.{/i} (1 Kings 10:9)
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2 Kings 22:2• 2And he did that which was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. (2 Kings 22:2)
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2 Kings 23:25• 25{i}And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.{/i} (2 Kings 23:25)
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2 Chron. 34:2• 2{i}And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left{/i}. (2 Chron. 34:2)
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Prov. 20:28• 28Mercy and truth preserve the king,{HR}And his throne is upholden by mercy. (Prov. 20:28)
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Prov. 21:3• 3To exercise justice and judgment{HR}[Is] more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice. (Prov. 21:3)
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Prov. 25:5• 5Take away the wicked [from] before the king,{HR}And his throne shall be established in righteousness. (Prov. 25:5)
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Prov. 29:4• 4{i}A king by just judgment establisheth the land;{HR}But he that taketh gifts overthroweth it.{/i} (Prov. 29:4)
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Prov. 31:9• 9{i}Open thy mouth, judge righteously,{HR}And minister justice to the afflicted and needy.{/i} (Prov. 31:9)
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Isa. 9:7• 7To the increase of the government and to peace [there shall be] no end upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The jealousy of Jehovah of hosts will perform this. (Isa. 9:7)
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Jer. 42:6• 6Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God. (Jer. 42:6)
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Deut. 4:40• 40{i}And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.{/i} (Deut. 4:40)
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Psa. 128:1‑2• 1A song of the ascents.{HR}Happy [is] every fearer of Jehovah,{HR}That walketh in his ways.
 2Labour of thy hands when thou shalt eat,{HR}Happy thou and well with thee: (Psa. 128:1‑2)
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Isa. 3:10• 10Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. (Isa. 3:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Shalt thou reign, because thou viest withd the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "dost excel in."

W. Kelly Translation

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Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?