Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 22:17

17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness , and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence to do it .

All that thou lookest after, and that thy heart is set upon, is thy own grandeur, and riches.

And to make thy self great thou makest no difficulty, to destroy thy subjects that are innocent, and have not deserved death, and to oppress others, using all manner of violence against them, it is not to be thought that Iehojachim did all this in person; but by such corrupt and injust Judges, as he set up; so God accounted that Ahab had killed, and taken possession, 1 Kings 21.19. Though the Elders and Nobles were those that did it, verse 11.12, 13. Princes are responsal to God for the sins of their Ministers and Judges.

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