Jeremiah 22:15
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
Note Or because you enclose yourself
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?
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thy
- Jeremiah 22:18; 2 Kings 23:25; 1 Chronicles 3:15
- eat
- 1 Kings 4:20–23; 2 Chronicles 35:7, 8, 12–18; Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 9:7–10; Ecclesiastes 10:17; Isaiah 33:16; Luke 11:41; Acts 2:46; 1 Corinthians 10:31
- and do
- Jeremiah 22:3; Jeremiah 21:12; Jeremiah 23:5; 2 Samuel 8:15; 1 Kings 10:9; 2 Kings 22:2; 2 Kings 23:25; 2 Chronicles 34:2; Proverbs 20:28; Proverbs 21:3; Proverbs 25:5; Proverbs 29:4; Proverbs 31:9; Isaiah 9:7
- then
- Jeremiah 42:6; Deuteronomy 4:40; Psalm 128:1, 2; Isaiah 3:10