Jeremiah 22:9
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New International Version (©2011)
And the answer will be: 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
And the answer will be, 'Because they violated their covenant with the LORD their God by worshiping other gods.'"

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They will answer, 'Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then people will respond, 'It is because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have bowed down to other gods and served them.'

NET Bible (©2006)
The answer will come back, "It is because they broke their covenant with the LORD their God and worshiped and served other gods."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The answer will be: 'They rejected the promise of the LORD their God. They worshiped other gods and served them.' "

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

American King James Version
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

American Standard Version
Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them.

Darby Bible Translation
And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

English Revised Version
Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

World English Bible
Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have said, 'Because that they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their God, And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-9 The king of Judah is spoken to, as sitting upon the throne of David, the man after God's own heart. Let him follow his example, that he may have the benefit of the promises made to him. The way to preserve a government, is to do the duty of it. But sin will be the ruin of the houses of princes, as well as of meaner men. And who can contend with destroyers of God's preparing? God destroys neither persons, cities, nor nations, except for sin; even in this world he often makes it plain for what crimes he sends punishment; and it will be clear at the day of judgement.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then they shall answer,.... Or, "it shall be answered" (e); by some in company, acquainted with the history of this people:

because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God; the Lord was the God of these people; he chose them for his peculiar people, and distinguished them by his favours from others; a covenant was made with them, in which many good things were promised them upon their obedience; this was kept by him, but forsaken and broken by them; they forsook their covenant God, his law and his worship; and that was the cause of their ruin:

and worshipped other gods, and served them; the idols of the people, as the Targum; they left the true God, who had done great and good things for them, and worshipped those who were only gods by name, and not by nature; and served stocks and stones, the vanities of the Gentiles, who could not bestow one good thing on them; such were their stupidity and ingratitude, and therefore very justly given up to destruction. This seems to refer, as Cocceius thinks, not to the first destruction of the city by Nebuchadnezzar, when it had not so clear and full an accomplishment; but to the second destruction of it by the Romans, and the times following that; when the Gospel being preached among the Gentiles, they had a better understanding of the true God, and of his covenant, and of the vanity of idolatry, and of the state of the Jewish nation, and the religion of it, and of the true causes of their ruin.

(e) "respondebitur", Gataker; "dicetur", Piscator.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. (2Ki 22:17).

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A Warning about the Palace
…7And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. 8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city? 9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

1 Kings 9:8 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'
2 Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
2 Chronicles 34:25 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made, my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.'
Jeremiah 9:13 The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
Jeremiah 11:3 Tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant--
Jeremiah 16:11 then say to them, 'It is because your ancestors forsook me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.
Jeremiah 40:2 When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place.
Ezekiel 5:15 You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.
Ezekiel 12:16 But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine and plague, so that in the nations where they go they may acknowledge all their detestable practices. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 14:23 You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD."
Ezekiel 39:23 And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.