Jeremiah 22:13

New Living Translation

And the Lord says, “What sorrow awaits Jehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. He builds injustice into its walls, for he makes his neighbors work for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.

2 Chronicles 36:5

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

Job 31:39

or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,

Isaiah 5:8

What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. At midlife they will lose their riches; in the end, they will become poor old fools.

Jeremiah 22:18

Therefore, this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah: “The people will not mourn for him, crying to one another, ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ His subjects will not mourn for him, crying, ‘Alas, our master is dead! Alas, his splendor is gone!’

Leviticus 19:13

“Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.

Micah 3:10

You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.

Habakkuk 2:12

“What sorrow awaits you who build cities with money gained through murder and corruption!

Malachi 3:5

“At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Deuteronomy 15:13

“When you release a male servant, do not send him away empty-handed.

James 5:4

For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.