Jeremiah 22:11

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For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.

Context

8“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’

9Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”

10Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.

11For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah), king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.

12But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”

13“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

14who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

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