Burned ... poured ... did - Or, burn ... pour ... do.
To worship her - Rather, to represent her image. The cakes Jeremiah 7:18 were made in the shape of a crescent to represent the moon.
Our men - i. e., our husbands (margin). They had the authority of their husbands for what they were doing. Jeremiah must leave them alone, and discuss the matter with those who alone had the right to interfere.
Verse Jeremiah 44:19. _AND WHEN WE BURNED INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN_] The MOON seems to have been called מלכת _melecheth_, as the SUN was called מלך _molech_. The Hindoos pour out water to the su...
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 to the ch. This passage, unlike the preceding, apparently comes intact from Baruch's memoirs....
_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 fo...
AND WHEN WE BURNED INCENSE— _But if we burn incense, and pour forth libations to the queen of heaven, do we make cakes for her without our husbands, that we may pour out,_ &c.? Houbigant. See chap. Je...
_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...
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? DID WE MAKE...
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...
WORSHIP] RM 'pourtray,'refer-ring to the full moon, as represented either by the shape of the cake itself or by a'figure upon it. MEN] RV 'husbands.'A wife's vow was not binding unless with the consen...
WITHOUT OUR MEN. — Better, as in the margin, _without our husbands._ We have here, it is obvious, the very words of the women who were stung by what they looked on as Jeremiah’s intimation that the ch...
וְ כִֽי ־אֲנַ֤חְנוּ מְקַטְּרִים֙ לִ מְלֶ֣כֶת...
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...
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without (l) our husbands? (l)...
_Worship. Hebrew, "to represent." The cakes had a crescent on them. (Calmet) See Hesychius in Greek: selenai. --- Husbands. The women are most zealous. But all partook of this idolatry, chap. vii. 18....
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...
They brought forward another argument, that they were not a small portion, but the whole people, who then flourished in prosperity, when they offered incense to idols. We know that but a few remained...
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 WHEN WE BURNT INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, AND POURED OUT DRINK OFFERINGS UNTO HER,.... Which they owned they did, and which they were not ashamed of, and were determined to go on with; and wer...
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? Ver. 19. _And...
_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...
The Answer of the Jews and the Lord's Prophecy of Punishment...
And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes, the customary cakes used with sacrifices, 7:18, TO WORSHIP HER AND POUR OUT DRINK-OFFE...
MEN?: Or, husbands...
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...
Their last argument is drawn from the evils that had befallen them since they had left worshipping the sun, moon, and stars; thus strangely making their omission of that the cause of their sufferings,...
Jeremiah 44:19 incense H6999 (H8764) queen H4446 heaven H8064 out H5258 (H8687) offerings H5262 make H6213 ...
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...
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...
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 Kings 21:25; 2 Chronicles 21:6; Deuteronomy 7:3; Deuteronomy 7:4;...