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Jeremiah 22:8

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And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

KJV

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

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This verse in Jeremiah 22

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Gentile nations, more intelligent than you, shall understand that which ye do not, namely, that this city is a spectacle of God's vengeance [CALVIN].

This site's exposition

For this is what the LORD

on Jeremiah 22:6-9

The LORD tells the royal house, “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon,” and He will “turn you into a desert.” The answer names covenant breach: “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.”

This site's exposition

many nations will pass by this city

Foreign travelers stop at the fallen city and ask what happened. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, following Calvin, note that the nations will grasp what Judah refused to see. The great city becomes a public sign of the LORD's judgment.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(V. 6,-8.) Because this is what the Lord says about the house (or to the house) of the king of Judah, Gilead, you are to me the head (or the beginning) of Lebanon. If I do not make you a desolation, cities uninhabitable. And I will consecrate (or build) upon you the one who kills men, and his weapons: and they will cut down your chosen cedars, and throw (or send) them into fire, and many nations will pass through this city, and each one will say to his neighbor: Why did the Lord do such to this great city?

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But, (2.) This shall not protect them; the country that is now fruitful as Gilead shall be made a wilderness. The cities that are now strong as Lebanon shall be cities not inhabited; and, when the country is laid waste, the cities must be dispeopled. See how easily God's judgments can ruin a nation, and how certainly sin will do it.
And many nations shall pass by this city,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Many nations shall pass - These words seem borrowed from Deu 29:22, etc.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וְעָֽבְרוּ֙and they will pass by

    veaveruH5674 →556 times

  • גּוֹיִ֣םnations

    goyimH1471 →561 times

  • רַבִּ֔יםmany

    rabimH7227 →454 times

  • עַ֖לat

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • הָעִ֣ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַזֹּ֑את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • וְאָֽמְרוּ֙and they will say

    veameruH559 →5305 times

  • אִ֣ישׁeach

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • רֵעֵ֔הוּneighbor his

    reehuH7453 →188 times

  • עַל־concerning

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מֶ֨הwhat?

    mehH4100 →752 times

  • עָשָׂ֤הdid he do

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • כָּ֔כָהthus

    kakhahH3602 →37 times

  • לָעִ֥ירto the city

    lairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַגְּדוֹלָ֖ה<the> great

    hagedolahH1419 →526 times

  • הַזֹּֽאת׃<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

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

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Kings 9:8–9And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’6 works2 Chronicles 7:20–22then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.5 worksDeuteronomy 29:23–26All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.4 worksLamentations 2:15–17All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”3 worksLamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.2 worksJeremiah 16:10When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Daniel 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.2 works

The walk

4 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

    Lamentations 4:12

    The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 48:4–6

      For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

    • Deuteronomy 29:24–28

      So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

    • Jeremiah 21:13

      Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

    • 1 Kings 9:8–9

      And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land…

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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