Teks -- Jeremiah 22:17 (NET)

22:17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

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JFB: Jer 22:17 - thine

As opposed to thy father, Josiah.

Calvin: Jer 22:17 - NO PHRASE

Here the Prophet expresses more clearly how much Jehoiakim differed from Josiah his father. He indeed shews that he was wholly unlike him, because Josiah had endeavored to observe what was equitable, while he set all his thoughts on fraud, plunder, and cruelty; for by the eye and the heart he means all the faculties of his soul and body. One of the main senses of the body, as it is well known, is the sight. Hence the Prophet includes here whatever is external and internal in men, when he says, thine eye, that is, all thy bodily senses are set on covetousness, and also thine heart, that is, all thy thoughts, feelings, designs, meditations, and purposes are employed in the same way. He intimates, in short, that Jehoiakim was corrupt both in body and mind, so that having cast aside every fear of God, he abandoned himself to avarice as well as to plunder and all acts of oppression. Thine eye, he says, and thy heart is not, except on covetousness

The verb בצע , betso, means to covet; hence the noun signifies not only avarice, but also any sinful lust. He adds cruelty, for it, cannot be but that all are bloody who give loose reins to their lusts. He mentions in the third place rapacity, or violent seizure; for עשק , oshek, means to take by force what belongs to another; hence the noun signifies rapacity. What follows in the last place is oppression, or disquietude. As רוף , ruts, means to run, Jerome renders it “the course of thy work,” as though ל , lamed, prefixed to עשות , oshut, were not one of the serviles, ם , ל , כ , ב , beth, caph, lamed, mem, but this cannot be admitted. The clear meaning of the Prophet indeed is, that Jehoiakim was not only intent on taking possession on what belonged to others, but that he also oppressed and distressed all he could. It is lastly added, to do; the verb to do is to be applied to what has gone before, that Jehoiakim employed all his thoughts, and was wholly engaged in evil deeds, that he not only contrived acts of cruelty and of avariciousness in his mind, but also carried fully into execution what he had contrived. ⁵⁵ It follows, —

TSK: Jer 22:17 - thine eyes // covetousness // to shed // violence

thine eyes : Jos 7:21; Job 31:7; Psa 119:36, Psa 119:37; Eze 19:6, Eze 33:31; Mar 7:21, Mar 7:22; Jam 1:14, Jam 1:15; 2Pe 2:14; 1Jo 2:15, 1Jo 2:16

covetousness : Exo 18:21; Psa 10:3; Luk 12:15-21, Luk 16:13, Luk 16:14; Rom 1:29; 1Co 6:10; Eph 5:3-5; Col 3:5; 1Ti 6:9, 1Ti 6:10; 2Pe 2:3, 2Pe 2:14

to shed : Jer 22:3, Jer 26:22-24; 1Ki 21:19; 2Ki 24:4; 2Ch 36:8; Eze 19:6; Zep 3:3

violence : or, incursion

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Poole: Jer 22:17

All that thou lookest after, and that thy heart is set upon, is thy own grandeur and riches. And to make thyself 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 Jehoiakim did all this in person, but by such corrupt and unjust judges as he set up; so God accounted that Ahab had killed and taken possession, 1Ki 21:19 , though the elders and nobles were those that did it, 1Ki 21:11-13 . Princes are responsible to God for the sins of their ministers and judges.

Gill: Jer 22:17 - But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness // and for to shed innocent blood // and for oppression, and for violence, to do it

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness,.... He was wholly intent upon gratifying that lust; his heart was meditating, contriving, and forming schemes for that purpose; and his eyes were looking out here and there for proper objects and opportunities to exercise it:

and for to shed innocent blood; in order to get their money, goods, and possessions into his hands; avarice often leads to murder:

and for oppression, and for violence, to do it; by making incursions, and seizing upon the properties of men, and converting them to his own use; so true it is, that covetousness, or the love of money, is the root of all evil, 1Ti 6:10.