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Jeremiah 22:17

in Jeremiah 22

“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

KJV

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.

This verse in Jeremiah 22

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
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 escheated their property.

This site's exposition

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness

on Jeremiah 22:13-17

Jehoiakim's palace project is described in the terms of forced labor, a neighbor's service taken without wages, wide rooms and cedar ceilings paid for by unpaid work, and the woe is pronounced on the builder rather than on the building. Verse 15 asks the question plainly, shalt thou reign because thou closest thyself in cedar, and sets Josiah beside his son: did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him, judging the cause of the poor and needy read as the true content of knowing God. The commentators take verse 16's was not this to know me as the chapter's own definition of the knowledge of God, tested by how a king treats those with no power to reward him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Another message sent them in the reign of Jehoiachin (alias, Jeconiah) the son of Jehoiakim. He is charged with an obstinate refusal to hear, and is threatened with destruction, and it is foretold that in him Solomon's house should fail,

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּ֣יthat

    kiH35884482 times

  • אֵ֤ין[are] not

    ʾeinH369789 times

  • עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙eyes your

    ʾeineikhaH5869887 times

  • וְלִבְּךָ֔and heart your

    velibekhaH3820595 times

  • כִּ֖יthat

    kiH35884482 times

  • אִם־except

    ʾim-H5181069 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • בִּצְעֶ֑ךָunjust gain your

    bitzekhaH121523 times

  • וְעַ֤לand on

    vealH59215755 times

  • דַּֽם־[the] blood of

    dam-H1818360 times

  • הַנָּקִי֙the innocent [person]

    hanakiH535543 times

  • לִשְׁפּ֔וֹךְto shed [it]

    lishpokhH8210114 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H59215755 times

  • הָעֹ֥שֶׁק<the> oppression

    haoshekH6233

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H59215755 times

  • הַמְּרוּצָ֖ה<the> extortion

    hamerutzahH4835

  • לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ סto do [it]

    laasotH62132628 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 33:31

    So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest…

    it leads to

    • Matthew 13:22

      The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

    • Psalms 78:36–37

      But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

    • James 1:22–24

      Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

    • Isaiah 29:13

      Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…

    • Luke 11:28

      But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

  • Through

    2 Peter 2:14

    Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 2:3

      In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

    • 2 Peter 2:18

      With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

    • Ephesians 2:3

      All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.