Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 44:15
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.
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.
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....
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...
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...
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....
_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...
See introd. summary to the ch. This passage, unlike the preceding, apparently comes intact from Baruch's memoirs....
_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...
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, a...
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...
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...
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...
וַ יַּעֲנ֣וּ אֶֽת ־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ כָּל ־הָ אֲנָ
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
The Answer of the Jews and the Lord's Prophecy of Punishment...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 44:15 men H582 knew H3045 (H8802) wives H802 incense H6999 (H8764) other H312 gods H430 women...
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...
2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:2; Genesis 19:4; Isaiah 1:5; Jeremiah 5:1;...