Jeremiah 22:21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
In the order of Jeremiah's experiences in Judah the passage comes soon after chapter 20 and is to be read together with chapter 23. It belongs to his account of the sad conditions in Judah that caused him to weep — false prophets, utter repudiation of God's law and the principles of righteousness, and persecution of the prophet himself — preserved to show the enormity of sin and its sure consequences. Prosperity did not make Judah willing to listen to God, for disobedience and refusal to heed His voice had been their manner from youth.
Jeremiah 22 supports that Josiah, whose reign ended in 607 B.C., was the last king of Jerusalem to obey the Lord's commandments, and that afterward the Jews no longer kept the release years or Jubilees, placing the Jubilee of Jubilees in 1843. Because warnings given in prosperity can go unheeded, adversity may be needed to humble people and turn them from earthly supports toward God as their true portion.