Jeremiah 22:13

New Century Version

“How terrible it will be for one who builds his palace by doing evil, who cheats people so he can build its upper rooms. He makes his own people work for nothing and does not pay them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim the king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did what the Lord his God said was wrong.

Job 31:39

if I have taken the land’s harvest without paying or have broken the spirit of those who worked the land,

Isaiah 5:8

How terrible it will be for you who add more houses to your houses and more fields to your fields until there is no room left for other people. Then you are left alone in the land.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a bird hatching an egg it did not lay, so are the people who get rich by cheating. When their lives are half finished, they will lose their riches. At the end of their lives, it will be clear they were fools.

Jeremiah 22:18

So this is what the Lord says to Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “The people of Judah will not cry when Jehoiakim dies, saying: ‘Oh, my brother,’ or ‘Oh, my sister.’ They will not cry for him, saying: ‘Oh, master,’ or ‘Oh, my king.’

Leviticus 19:13

“ ‘You must not cheat your neighbor or rob him. You must not keep a hired worker’s salary all night until morning.

Micah 3:10

You build Jerusalem by murdering people; you build it with evil.

Habakkuk 2:12

“How terrible it will be for the nation that kills people to build a city, that wrongs others to start a town.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Then I will come to you and judge you. I will be quick to testify against those who take part in evil magic, adultery, and lying under oath, those who cheat workers of their pay and who cheat widows and orphans, those who are unfair to foreigners, and those who do not respect me.

Deuteronomy 15:13

When you let slaves go, don’t send them away without anything.

James 5:4

The pay you did not give the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the workers have been heard by the Lord All-Powerful.