Jeremiah 22:5

But if ye will not hear these words,.... Will give no attention, and yield no obedience to them:

I swear by myself, saith the Lord; and by a greater he cannot swear; and that is the reason why he…

Here we have,

I. Orders given to Jeremiah to go and preach before the king. In the foregoing chapter we are told that Zedekiah sent messengers to the prophet, but here the prophet is bidden to go, in…

I swear by myself For comment on this as the most solemn and binding form of oath, see Heb 6:13-18. The form is repeated in Jer 49:13, and occurs besides in Gen 22:16; Isa 45:23, and a cognate…