Jeremiah 22:18 Cross References - LEB

¹⁸ _⌊Therefore_⌋* thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah:
"They will not lament for him, 'Alas, my brother,' or 'Alas, sister.' They will not lament for him, 'Alas, lord,' or 'alas, his majesty.'

²⁶ _⌊I am distressed_⌋* over you, my brother Jonathan. you were very dear to me; your love was more wonderful to me than the love of women.

³³ The king sang a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner have died the death of a fool? ³⁴ Your hands were not tied and your feet were not in contact with bronze fetters. You have fallen as one who falls before sons of wickedness." Then _⌊all the people wept over him again_⌋.* ³⁵ Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, "_⌊May God punish me_⌋* if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down." ³⁶ All the people noticed, and it was good in their eyes, as everything that the king did was good in the eyes of all the people. ³⁷ Then all the people and all of Israel realized on that day that _⌊the king had not desired_⌋* to kill Abner the son of Ner. ³⁸ Then the king said to his servants, "Did you not realize that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?

³⁰ He put his corpse in his tomb, and they mourned over him, "Alas, my brother!"

¹⁹ And it happened that _⌊after many days, at the end of two years_⌋,* his bowels came out because of his illness, and he died in terrible agony. And his people did not make a fire for him like the fire for his ancestors.* ²⁰ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed* with no one's regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings.

²⁵ And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments.

⁴ "They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies* will become food for the birds* of the air, and for the wild animals* of the earth."

⁶ Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them.

¹⁰ You must not weep for the dead person, and you must not show sympathy for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return, or see the land of his birth again.

⁵ In peace you will die, and as there was burning for your ancestors,* the former kings who were _⌊before you_⌋,* so they will burn for you, and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!" For the word I have spoken,' _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh." '"