Jeremiah 44:1
MIGDOL] on the northern boundary of Egypt. For NOPH and TAHPANHES see on Jeremiah 2:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIGDOL] on the northern boundary of Egypt. For NOPH and TAHPANHES see on Jeremiah 2:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 idolatry which still characterised the people now that they dwelt in Egypt. Their experience of suffering... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS] i.e. your idols. MIGHT CUT YOURSELVES _off_] RV 'may be cut off.' 11-14. Their punishment foretold. 15-19. They persist in their idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY] Probably the occasion was an idolatrous festival in which the women were taking a leading part. ALL THE PEOPLE, etc.] not, of course, to be taken literally, but meaning that they were very numerous and represented the whole.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHATSOEVER THING GOETH FORTH] RV 'every word that is gone forth.'They refer to their religious vows: cp. Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:23. QUEEN OF HEAVEN] see on Jeremiah 7:18. _Then_ HAD WE PLENTY OF VICTUALS] They perversely attribute the misfortunes which had befallen their country from the batt... [ Continue Reading ]
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 consent of the husband: see Numbers 30:6. 20-23. Jeremiah answers. It was, he says, owing to the idolatry... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH YOUR HAND] BV 'with your hands,'pointing, perhaps, to the cakes which they were carrying. YE WILL SURELY, etc.] RV 'Establish then.. and perform.'If ye persist, then be it so.... [ Continue Reading ]
As being faithless to their covenant with God, they shall lose the right of calling upon His name as such.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Exodus 3:12; 2 Kings 19:29 It is not improbable that it was on this occasion that Jeremiah met with a m... [ Continue Reading ]