Jeremiah 22:16

A Message Concerning Jehoiakim

¹⁵ Are you a king because you excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink
and administer justice and righteousness?
Then it went well with him.
¹⁶ He took up the case of the poor and needy,
then it went well.
Is this not what it means to know Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
¹⁷ But you have eyes and a heart for nothing
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.

Cause of the Poor

Given to the Poor

Poor and Needy

Says the Lord

Declares The Lord

Jehovah

Judah

Psalm 72:1-4

Solomonic.God, give Your justice to the king
and Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Psalm 72:12-13

For he will rescue the poor who cry out
and the afflicted who have no helper.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do what is good.
Seek justice.
Correct the oppressor.
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.

Jeremiah 9:24

But the one who boasts should boast in this,
that he understands and knows Me—
that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is no one holy like the Lord.
There is no one besides You!
And there is no rock like our God.

Job 29:12-17

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Psalm 9:10

Those who know Your name trust in You
because You have not abandoned
those who seek You, Yahweh.

Psalm 82:3-4

Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.

Psalm 109:31

For He stands at the right hand of the needy
to save him from those who would condemn him.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Rescue those being taken off to death,
and save those stumbling toward slaughter.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have become fat and sleek.
They have also excelled in evil matters.
They have not taken up cases,
such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper,
and they have not defended the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among the nations that they and their fathers have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

Jeremiah 31:33-34

“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

John 8:19

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

John 8:54-55

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

John 16:3

They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

John 17:3

This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

John 17:6

I have revealed Your name
to the men You gave Me from the world.
They were Yours, You gave them to Me,
and they have kept Your word.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

1 John 2:3-4

This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.