Jeremiah 22:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not lament him, “Alas! my brother”; “Alas! sister.” They shall not lament him, “Alas, Lord! alas, Majesty!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother! Most dear have you been to me; More wondrous your love to me than the love of women.

1 Kings 13:30

He laid the man’s body in his own grave, and they mourned over it: “Alas, my brother!”

2 Kings 23:36

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah, daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

2 Kings 23:6

From the house of the Lord he also removed the Asherah to the Wadi Kidron, outside Jerusalem; he burned it and beat it to dust, in the Wadi Kidron, and scattered its dust over the graveyard of the people of the land.

2 Kings 24:6

Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.

1 Chronicles 3:15

The sons of Josiah were: the firstborn Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also composed a lamentation for Josiah, which is recited to this day by all the male and female singers in their lamentations for Josiah. These have been made an ordinance for Israel, and can be found written in the Lamentations.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, his God.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 16:6

They shall die, the great and the lowly, in this land, unburied and unlamented. No one will gash themselves or shave their heads for them.

Jeremiah 21:11

To the royal house of Judah: Hear the word of the Lord,

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for him who is dead, nor mourn for him! Weep rather for him who is going away; never again to see the land of his birth.

Jeremiah 22:12

but in the place where they exiled him, there he shall die; he shall never see this land again.

Jeremiah 34:5

You shall die in peace, and they will burn spices for you as they did for your ancestors, the earlier kings who preceded you, and they shall make lament over you, “Alas, Lord.” I myself make this promise—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 36:30

The Lord now says of Jehoiakim, king of Judah: No descendant of his shall sit on David’s throne; his corpse shall be thrown out, exposed to heat by day, frost by night.