Covetousness — literally, gain. Besides exacting forced labor, Jehoiakim, to procure the necessary means for the vast expenses he incurred, …

Your covetousness. —More literally, your gain, the word used implying (Jeremiah 8:10) the idea of violence an…

Here the Prophet expresses more clearly how much Jehoiakim differed from Josiah his father. He indeed shows that he was wholly unlike him, because …

But your eyes and your heart [are] not but for your covetousness. He was wholly intent upon gra…

Here is a sentence of death upon two kings, the wicked sons of a very pious father. Josiah was prevented from seeing the evil to come in this world…