Jeremiah 44:1-30. Jeremiah's protest against the worship of the Queen of Heaven We may note that this is Jeremiah's last recorded prophecy. The exiles at Babylon before the overthrow of Jerusalem and the Temple argued that the national calamities were to be ascribed to the abolition of the forms o... [ Continue Reading ]
_The word that came to Jeremiah_ Apparently some little time had elapsed since the arrival of the fugitives, so as to allow for the development of the worship here spoken of. We must remember, however, that there were colonies of Jews in Egypt already. The occasion was probably a gathering of a larg... [ Continue Reading ]
_burn incense_ For this expression (and so throughout the ch.) See on Jeremiah 1:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 7:25 and elsewhere. We should perhaps read for "you" _them_, although "you" implies in a significant way the continuous personality of the nation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 33:10; Jeremiah 42:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
_against your own souls_ See on Jeremiah 42:20, and cp. Jeremiah 26:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the works of your hands_ your idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
_their wives_ rightly, by a slight deviation from MT. Cp. Jeremiah 44:17_; Jeremiah 44:21_(so Gi., Du. and Co.). LXX _your princes_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will set my face_ See on Jeremiah 21:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary to the ch.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 42:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
_have a desire_ For lit. Heb. See on Jeremiah 22:27. _for none … escape_ perhaps added afterwards as a correction to the earlier part of the _v_. on account of the actual return of certain fugitives. So Co.... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary to the ch. This passage, unlike the preceding, apparently comes intact from Baruch's memoirs.... [ Continue Reading ]
_and all the women_ It has been suggested that it is hardly likely that women would have come so far, and that "even … Pathros" is a gloss. Pathros was the S. part of what is now called Egypt, but was once politically separated from it, Ethiopia claiming its possession. It is identical with the Theb... [ Continue Reading ]
_every word that is gone forth out of our mouth_ For this phrase as employed of vows see Numbers 30:2; Numbers 30:12; Deuteronomy 23:23; Judges 11:36; Psalms 66:13 f. _the queen of heaven_ See on ch. Jeremiah 7:18. _victuals_ lit. as mg. _bread_.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 misfortunes by Jews of the average type. Jeremiah regarded the misfortunes of his country as proofs... [ Continue Reading ]
_worship_ The alternative in mg. suggests that her image may have been stamped upon them. For "cakes" See on Jeremiah 7:18. _without our husbands_ According to Numbers 30:6 f., which in its present form doubtless represents a much older practice, the consent of the husband was necessary before the... [ Continue Reading ]
Du., Erbt and Co. agree in considering that these _vv_. are a later addition, merely reproducing the thoughts contained in Jeremiah 44:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary of the ch.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The incense_ See on Jeremiah 44:3; also on Jeremiah 6:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
_could no longer bear_ These words contain the pith of the answer to the people's argument that they had been more prosperous while openly practising idolatry than afterwards. Jeremiah points out that even though their national misfortunes were subsequent to Josiah's reformation, and therefore after... [ Continue Reading ]
Here and in Jeremiah 44:25 we return to Baruch's memoirs. _all Judah … Egypt_ LXX, probably rightly, omit.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye and your wives_ better, with LXX, _Ye women_. _with your hands have fulfilled it_ have carried out your determination. For the expression cp. 1 Kings 8:15; 1 Kings 8:24. _establish then, etc_.] ironically spoken. If ye will persist in spite of all my warnings, then be it so.... [ Continue Reading ]
_my name shall no more be named_ The Jews in Egypt shall be exterminated.... [ Continue Reading ]
As these _vv_. stand, there is, if we take them literally, a considerable amount of contradiction (cp. Jeremiah 44:14). The Egyptian Jews are (Jeremiah 44:26) to perish completely; but (Jeremiah 44:27) some are to escape into Judah, while survivors in Egypt (Jeremiah 44:28) shall know whose word sha... [ Continue Reading ]
_for evil, and not for good_ Cp. Jeremiah 1:12; Jeremiah 31:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And this shall be the sign_ It has been inferred, but unnecessarily, from the close correspondence of these _vv_. with the above piece of history that these two verses are an interpolation made after the event. Pharaoh Hophra (the Greek Apries) reigned from b.c. 589 to _c._570, when he was overthro... [ Continue Reading ]