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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 44:18

The suppression of this popular idolatry had apparently been regarded with much ill-will in Josiah’s time, and many may even have ascribed to it his defeat at Megiddo. Probably Jehoiakim had again permitted it, but Zedekiah, during the miseries of his reign, had forbidden it, and the people ascribed the fall of Jerusalem to the neglect of their favorite goddess.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the ch. This passage, unlike the preceding, apparently comes intact from Baruch's memoirs....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note on Jeremiah 7:16-20. The _v_. alludes to the misfortunes reaching from Josiah's death at Megiddo to the flight into Egypt. The passage is important "as shewing the view taken of these...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. SINCE WE LE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. — This form of worship, characterised specially by its offerings of crescent-shaped cakes, would seem to have been the dominant fashion of the idolatry of the t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מִן ־אָ֡ז חָדַ֜לְנוּ לְ קַטֵּ֨ר לִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Famine. They think nothing of the transgression of the law, &c., ver. 23. Could obduracy and blindness go greater lengths? (1 Machabees i. 12.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here he enlarges on their ingratitude, that they attributed to God the fault of all their calamities, when yet God would have drawn them, as the Prophet will hereafter tell us, as it were out of darkn...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT SINCE WE LEFT OFF TO BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN,.... Or were restrained from it, as the Targum, through the force of the prophet's sermons, or by the authority of their governors: this Ab...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine._ Ver. 18....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, very likely due to the reformation under Josiah, 2 Kings 23:4, WE HAVE WANTED ALL THINGS, they ha...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Answer of the Jews and the Lord's Prophecy of Punishment...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 44:18 stopped H2308 (H8804) incense H6999 (H8763) queen H4446 heaven H8064 out H5258 (H8687) offerings

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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'...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 44:17 The refugees will continue to worship the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, which most likely refers to Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. The whole nation (FATHERS, king

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 40:12; Job 21:14; Job 21:15; Malachi 3:13; Numbers 11:5;...

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