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Jeremiah 22:15

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15Are you a king because you excel in cedar?

Didn’t your father eat and drink

and administer justice and righteousness?n

Then it went well with him.

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Cross references

  1. nJr 22:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Do you think you are a king

because you compete in cedar?

Did not your father eat and drink

and do justice and righteousness?

Then it was well with him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Does it make you a king

to have more and more cedar?

Did not your father have food and drink?

He did what was right and just,

so all went well with him.

NLTNew Living Translation

But a beautiful cedar palace does not make a great king!

Your father, Josiah, also had plenty to eat and drink.

But he was just and right in all his dealings.

That is why God blessed him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar?

Did not your father eat and drink,

and he did justice and righteousness,

then it was well with him?

KJV 1900King James Version

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar?

Did not thy father eat and drink,

And do judgment and justice,

And then it was well with him?