Yeremia 21:6

21:6 I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, ¹  people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

Yeremia 22:2

22:2 Say: ‘Listen, O king of Judah who follows in David’s succession. ²  You, your officials, and your subjects who pass through the gates of this palace must listen to what the Lord says. ³ 

Yeremia 37:2

37:2 Neither he nor the officials who served him nor the people of Judah paid any attention to what the Lord said through the prophet Jeremiah. ⁴ 

Yeremia 51:22

51:22 I used you to smash men and women.

I used you to smash old men and young men.

I used you to smash young men and young women.

[21:6]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[22:2]  ² tn Heb “who sits on David’s throne.”

[22:2]  ³ tn Heb “Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah who sits on the throne of David, you, and your officials and your people who pass through these gates.”

[37:2]  ⁴ sn These two verses (37:1-2) are introductory to chs. 37–38 and are intended to characterize Zedekiah and his regime as disobedient just like Jehoiakim and his regime had been (Jer 36:27; cf. 2 Kgs 24:19-20). This characterization is important because Zedekiah is portrayed in the incidents that follow in 37–38 as seeking the Lord’s help or seeking a word from the Lord. However though he did send to inquire of Jeremiah three times, he did not pay attention to the warnings that he received in reply and was ultimately responsible for the fall of Jerusalem (Jer 39). As elsewhere in the book of Jeremiah, Jeconiah’s reign is passed over in silence because it was negligible and because Jeremiah did not wish to legitimize the hopes that many in Israel and Babylon had in his returning from exile and resuming rule over Judah (see further the study notes on 22:24, 30 and 33:30).