Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Jeremiah 44:4
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.
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.
Verse Jeremiah 44:4. _O, DO NOT THIS ABOMINABLE THING_] A strong specimen of affectionate entreaty. One of the finest figures of poetry, when judiciously managed, the _anthropopathia_, the ascribing...
HOWBEIT I SENT - And I sent....
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 ...
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...
RISING EARLY, &C. See note on Jeremiah 7:13....
B. A Prophetic Admonition Jeremiah 44:1-19 Nothing is more inspiring than to see an old soldier of God faithful until death on the battlefield for the Lord. Chapter 44 offers the reader the last glimp...
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. I SENT UNTO YOU ALL MY ... PROPHETS, RISING EARLY AND SEN...
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...
RISING EARLY AND SENDING THEM... — The prophet uses the same anthropomorphic language as of old (Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 26:5; J
וָ אֶשְׁלַ֤ח אֲלֵיכֶם֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־עֲבָדַ֣י הַ
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...
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...
Yet I sent to you all my servants the prophets, (b) rising early and sending [them], saying, O, do not this abominable thing that I hate. (b) Read (Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:3; Jeremiah 29:19;...
Never surely could anything be more gracious than the Lord's repeated expostulations with the people. The Lord follows them into Egypt, whither they had fled in direct defiance of God's word; and yet...
Now follows a circumstance by which their impiety was still further enhanced, that God had _sent _them Prophets who stretched forth their hands to them to draw them from their errors. For had they nev...
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...
HOWBEIT, I SENT UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS,.... As many as he raised up, and employed in the work and service of prophesying; and these were many; and as many as they were, he sent them to...
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. Ver. 4. _Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants._] Here t...
_Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem_ He refers to the late destruction of it by the king of Babylon: this remnant of the people was a brand plucked out of the burning, and thei...
JEREMIAH'S FIRST WARNING...
Howbeit, I sent unto you all My servants, the prophets, rising early and sending them, full of merciful eagerness to prevent the threatened catastrophe, saying, OH, DO NOT THIS ABOMINABLE THING THAT I...
1-14 God reminds the Jews of the sins that brought desolations upon Judah. It becomes us to warn men of the danger of sin with all seriousness: Oh, do not do it! If you love God, do not, for it is pr...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 44:4 sent H7971 (H8799) servants H5650 prophets H5030 early H7925 (H8687) sending H7971 (H8800) saying...
1). YHWH'S WORD AGAINST HIS PEOPLE WARNING OF HIS COMING JUDGMENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HEEDED WHAT HE HAS DONE AGAINST JERUSALEM. THE REMNANT WHO HAVE ESCAPED TO EGYPT WILL BE DESTROYED (2-14). These...
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...
Jeremiah 44:4 Natural indications of God's hatred of sin. I. There are in this world gigantic tendencies which reveal themselves to our perception only by gentle and slight manifestations. The great...
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'...
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...
_Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate._ THE THING WHICH GOD HATES I. What sin itself is. II. God hates it. 1. Because it is contrary to His own nature. 2. Because it is unnatural in His c...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 44:4 This disaster came upon Jerusalem because the people rejected God’s SERVANTS THE PROPHETS and refused TO TURN from idolatry ...
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...
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,...
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...
1 Peter 4:3; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 16:47;...