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CUT YOURSELVES OFF - Rather, cut (them, Jeremiah 44:7) off from you....
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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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WORKS. Some codices, with five early printed editions (one, margin),
and Syriac, read "work" (singular)
GONE. come.
DWELL. sojourn.
AMONG. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagin...
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_the works of your hands_ your idols....
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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...
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In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,
burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be
gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might b...
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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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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....
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BURNING INCENSE UNTO OTHER GODS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT. — The words
imply that the exiles were not only carrying on the old idolatrous
practices with which they had been familiar in their own lands, but...
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לְ הַכְעִסֵ֨נִי֙ בְּ מַעֲשֵׂ֣י
יְדֵיכֶ֔ם לְ ק
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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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_Gods. Their blindness and malice was inconceivable. They attribute
their past miseries to the neglect of worshipping the moon! ver. 18.
They may be compared to a mixture of iron and brass, which is p...
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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...
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I was in the last Lecture obliged to cut short the subject of the
Prophet; for this verse depends on the foregoing, and is to be read
together with it. The Prophet asked why the Jew’s willingly cut of...
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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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IN THAT YE PROVOKE ME UNTO WRATH WITH THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS,....
Their sinful actions, particularly their idolatry, by worshipping
images, the works of men's hands; and though it was the queen of
he...
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In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning
incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to
dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be...
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_Ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands_ By making and
setting up idols to worship. _That ye might cut yourselves off_, &c.
This is not to be so taken as if they did these things with a...
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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...
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Idols are usually thus defamed, and indeed nothing can argue a greater
stupidity than for any to pay a homage (confessedly due to the Supreme
Being) to what is the work of men's hands, and therefore m...
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Jeremiah 44:8 wrath H3707 (H8687) works H4639 hands H3027 incense
H6999 (H8763) other H312 gods H430 land...
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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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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...
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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 44:8 Already the Judeans who have fled to
EGYPT (v. Jeremiah 44:1) have begun to worship the GODS that their
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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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1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8;...