Jeremiah 22:16

A Message Concerning Jehoiakim

¹⁵ Shall thou reign, because thou strive to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. ¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD. ¹⁷ 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.

Cause of the Poor

Given to the Poor

Poor and Needy

Says the Lord

Declares The Lord

Jehovah

Judah

Psalm 72:1-4

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness to the king's son.

Psalm 72:12-13

For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is none holy as LORD, for there is none besides thee, neither is there any rock like our God.

Job 29:12-17

Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.

Psalm 9:10

And those who know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek thee.

Psalm 82:3-4

Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

Psalm 109:31

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Jeremiah 31:33-34

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my law{s (LXX/NT)} in their inward parts, and I will write {them (LXX/NT)} in their hearts. And I will be their God, and th

John 8:19

They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.

John 8:54-55

Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.

John 16:3

And they will do these things, because they have not known the Father nor me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.

John 17:6

I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gave me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gave them to me, and they have kept thy word.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

1 John 2:3-4

And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.