Jeremiah said whether we know God is shown by our life style. Doing what is right, turning from oppression and caring for others is the knowledge of God. He said exactly what Isaiah 58 said. Some were building big houses while others lacked, while they took their wealth unlawfully and did not care for their workers.
Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbour’s service without wages and gives him not for his work. That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers and cut him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar and painted with vermilion. Shall you reign, because you clothe yourself in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink and do judgement and justice and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him; was not this to know Me, says the Lord? But your eyes and your heart are full or covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it. (Jer 22:13-17).
The rebuke of the prophets was towards covetousness.
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