Earnest as was the preceding expostulation, Jeremiah sees that it has produced no effect. He therefore utters his last warning, and with this last resistance to the sins of a debased and godless peopl...
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...
See introd. summary of the ch....
_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...
C. A Prophetic Affirmation Jeremiah 44:20-30 TRANSLATION (20) Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, the women and all the people who had answered him, (21) Did not the LORD remember and...
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU - the ca...
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...
The sign referred to, viz. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt, did not take place till 586 b.c. For other instances of a sign not to take effect for a considerable time after its announcement cp. Exod...
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...
Here the Lord calls upon them to be prepared for the destruction of Egypt. No place, no kingdom shall give shelter to those whom God will punish. In their own land, or in the land of strangers, the Lo...
Jeremiah seals his prophecy by adding a sign which yet was to be coincident with it. It was not then, as they say, a premonstrative sign. And doubtless the Jews were wholly unworthy that God should sh...
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...
AND THIS [SHALL BE] A SIGN UNTO YOU, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL PUNISH YOU IN THIS PLACE,.... In Egypt, as before threatened; and what follows is a confirming sign that so it would be; and which, whe...
And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: Ver. 29. _That I will punish you in...
_And this shall be a sign unto you_ Signs are usually antecedent to the thing signified, as Isaiah 38:7; but here, as Exodus 3:12; Isaiah 37:30, and Luke 2:12, th
The Answer of the Jews and the Lord's Prophecy of Punishment...
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that My words shall surely stand against you for evil:...
20-30 Whatever evil comes upon us, it is because we have sinned against the Lord; we should therefore stand in awe, and sin not. Since they were determined to persist in their idolatry, God would go...
Signs are usually antecedent to the thing signified, but the word is taken in a larger notion in this place, for that which should attend the thing signified by it, as EXODUS 3:12; besides, though the...
Jeremiah 44:29 sign H226 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 punish H6485 (H8802) place H4725 know H3045 ...
4). A FURTHER WORD CONFIRMING YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON ALL JEWS LIVING IN EGYPT BECAUSE THEY HAVE TURNED TO OTHER GODS AND ARE TRUSTING IN PHARAOH HOPHRA AS THEIR DELIVERER (24-39). We have here the last pr...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 44:29 God offers the people a sign: when Egypt’s current king dies, they will know that God has spoken truly. HOPHRA ruled Egypt c. 589–570 B.C. He supported ZEDEKIAH ag
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 Samuel 2:34; Isaiah 40:8; Jeremiah 44:30; Luke 21:20; Luke 21:21;...
This shall be a sign — Signs are usually antecedent to the thing signified, but the word is taken in a larger notion in this place for that which should attend the thing signified by it....