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The suppression of this popular idolatry had apparently been regarded
with much ill-will in Josiah’s time, and many may even have ascribed
to it his defeat at Megiddo. Probably Jehoiakim had again per...
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CHAPTER 44
_ 1. The message to the Jews (Jeremiah 44:1) _
2. Their punishment (Jeremiah 44:11)
3. Worshipping the queen of heaven (Jeremiah 44:15)
4. Jehovah's answer ...
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JEREMIAH 44. DENUNCIATION OF THE JEWISH WORSHIP OF ISHTAR IN EGYPT.
Jeremiah points to the desolation of Judah as the experienced
consequence of idolatry, notwithstanding Yahweh's warnings (Jeremiah
4...
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See introd. summary to the ch. This passage, unlike the preceding,
apparently comes intact from Baruch's memoirs....
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See introd. note on Jeremiah 7:16-20. The _v_. alludes to the
misfortunes reaching from Josiah's death at Megiddo to the flight into
Egypt. The passage is important "as shewing the view taken of these...
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_2. The warning rejected_ (Jeremiah 44:15-19)
TRANSLATION
(15) And all the men who knew that their wives offered incense to
other gods, and all the women who were standing around, a great
congregatio...
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But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
SINCE WE LE...
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JEREMIAH'S LATEST PROPHECY (AFTER 586 B.C.). (THE PROPHECIES AGAINST
THE GENTILE NATIONS (JEREMIAH 46-51) WERE MOSTLY UTTERED AFTER THE
BATTLE OF CARCHEMISH, 605 B.C.)
He denounces the unabated idola...
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TO BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. — This form of worship,
characterised specially by its offerings of crescent-shaped cakes,
would seem to have been the dominant fashion of the idolatry of the
t...
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וּ מִן ־אָ֡ז חָדַ֜לְנוּ לְ קַטֵּ֨ר לִ
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CHAPTER XV
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN
Jeremiah 44:1
"Since we left off burning incense and offering libations to the Queen
of Heaven,
we have been in want of everything, and have been consumed by the
swo...
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The next prophecy in Egypt was of a fiery protest against the
persistent rebellion of the people of God. The prophet reminded them
of the patience of God, and of how His anger had already been poured...
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_Famine. They think nothing of the transgression of the law, &c., ver.
23. Could obduracy and blindness go greater lengths? (1 Machabees i.
12.)_...
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While we remark the patience and long suffering of the Lord; are we
not compelled no less to remark, and be astonished at the impudence,
and incorrigible hardness of the human heart? Was there ever an...
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Here he enlarges on their ingratitude, that they attributed to God the
fault of all their calamities, when yet God would have drawn them, as
the Prophet will hereafter tell us, as it were out of darkn...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44.
After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history
of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were
no...
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BUT SINCE WE LEFT OFF TO BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN,.... Or
were restrained from it, as the Targum, through the force of the
prophet's sermons, or by the authority of their governors: this
Ab...
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_But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and
have been consumed by the sword and by the famine._
Ver. 18....
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_As for the word thou hast spoken unto us, we will not hearken unto
thee_ Johanan and the rest (Jer 43:5) only denied that God had said
such things, and told Jeremiah he had spoken falsely: but now th...
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The Answer of the Jews and the Lord's Prophecy of Punishment...
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But since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to
pour out drink-offerings unto her, very likely due to the reformation
under Josiah, 2 Kings 23:4, WE HAVE WANTED ALL THINGS, they ha...
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15-19 These daring sinners do not attempt excuses, but declare they
will do that which is forbidden. Those who disobey God, commonly grow
worse and worse, and the heart is more hardened by the deceit...
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Jeremiah 44:18 stopped H2308 (H8804) incense H6999 (H8763) queen H4446
heaven H8064 out H5258 (H8687) offerings
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THE WORD OF YHWH COMES AGAINST ALL HIS PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN REFUGE IN
EGYPT IN THE PAST BECAUSE INSTEAD OF LEARNING THEIR LESSON FROM WHAT
HAS HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM THEY HAVE TURNED TO OTHER GODS, SO...
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2). THE PEOPLE'S DEFENCE TO THE CHARGE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO
JEREMIAH'S WORDS (15-19).
The people's defence is now blatantly stated, and confirms all that
Jeremiah has said. As far as they were concer...
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CONTENTS: Message to the Jews in Egypt. Further judgments threatened.
Contempt of the people for the admonitions.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-hophra, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar.
CONCLUSION: God'...
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Jeremiah 44:1. _Migdol_ was not far from the Red sea. Exodus 14:2. It
was now a great city, being in several places put first by Jeremiah,
situate only twelve hundred paces from Damiette. _Pathros_ wa...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 44:17 The refugees will continue to
worship the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, which most likely refers to Ishtar, the
goddess of fertility. The whole nation (FATHERS, king
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—A
considerable interval must be placed between this chapter and the two
preceding, which record their arrival in Egypt; for we here find th...
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EXPOSITION
Jeremiah's debate with the Jewish fugitives in Pathros; his last
prophecy.
JEREMIAH 44:1
Accusation brought against the obstinately idolatrous people.
JEREMIAH 44:1
WHICH DWELL; rather,...
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in
the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 44:1),
And this is Jeremiah's final message to the people. God's last word to
the nation that have tur...
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Jeremiah 40:12; Job 21:14; Job 21:15; Malachi 3:13; Numbers 11:5;...