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Verse Jeremiah 44:15. _THEN ALL THE MEN - AND ALL THE WOMEN_] We have
not seen the women in determined rebellion before. Here they make a
common cause with their idolatrous husbands....
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HAD BURNED INCENCE - Omit “had;” burned incense. This appeal of
the prophet was made at a public festival held somewhere in Pathros,
i. e., Upper Egypt: for the women are assembled in a great
congrega...
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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 ...
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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...
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ALL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), for the
specified part.
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _enosh_ App-14: i.e. the husbands.
MULTITUDE. assembly....
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_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...
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See introd. summary to the ch. This passage, unlike the preceding,
apparently comes intact from Baruch's memoirs....
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_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...
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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...
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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 th...
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ALL THE MEN WHICH KNEW THAT THEIR WIVES HAD BURNED INCENSE. — The
fact thus mentioned incidentally shows that the prophet’s words in
Jeremiah 44:9 had not missed their mark. As of old — as, we may add...
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וַ יַּעֲנ֣וּ אֶֽת ־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ כָּל
־הָ אֲנָ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Here is more fully seen the irreclaimable obstinacy of that nation;
for Jeremiah had given them more than sufficient evidences of his
integrity. They ought then to have been fully convinced that he wa...
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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...
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THEN ALL THE MEN WHICH KNEW THAT THEIR WIRES HAD BURNT INCENSE UNTO
OTHER GODS,.... Which was a rite God appointed to be used in his
worship; and is here put for the whole of religious worship, which...
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Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto
other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even
all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, an...
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_Then all the men and all the women that dwelt in Pathros_ Which was
Upper Egypt; _answered Jeremiah_, &c. From this it appears with how
much reason it was that God ordered Jeremiah to endeavour to pr...
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The Answer of the Jews and the Lord's Prophecy of Punishment...
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Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto
other gods and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, the
female contingent apparently being in the majority, from which m...
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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...
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The burning of incense was a religious rite, which God had appointed
the Jews as a piece of Divine homage to be paid to him alone, and by
an ordinary figure is put for worship; so as burning incense t...
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Jeremiah 44:15 men H582 knew H3045 (H8802) wives H802 incense H6999
(H8764) other H312 gods H430 women...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:2; Genesis 19:4; Isaiah 1:5; Jeremiah 5:1;...
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All the men — It should seem those that did it were mostly women,
and that they did it with some privacy, so that all their husbands did
not know of it....