The wickedness of their wives - Many accept the reading of the Septuagint: the “wickedness of your princes.” “The kings, the princes, the people,” and finally “their wives,” is a summary enumeration of all classes, by whose united persistence in sin the ruin of their country had been consummated.
Verse Jeremiah 44:9. _HAVE YE FORGOTTEN THE WICKEDNESS OF YOUR FATHERS_] It seems that the _women_ were principal agents in idolatrous practices; for the _queens _- the _wives_, of rulers and of comm...
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...
WICKEDNESS. wickednesses, or wicked ways. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. Note the Figure of speech _Repetitio_, used for great emphasis. THEIR WIVES. See Jeremiah 44:15....
_their wives_ rightly, by a slight deviation from MT. Cp. Jeremiah 44:17_; Jeremiah 44:21_(so Gi., Du. and Co.). LXX _your princes_....
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...
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they ha...
44:9 wickedness (e-5) Lit. 'wickednesses,' in all this verse....
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...
THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR WIVES. — As in the first introduction of idolatry under Solomon (1 Kings 11:4) so in the reigns of his successors, as in the case of Asa (1 Kings 15:13) and Ahaziah (2 Chronicl...
הַֽ שְׁכַחְתֶּם֩ אֶת ־רָעֹ֨ות אֲבֹותֵיכֶ֜ם וְ...
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...
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the (d) kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they...
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...
The Prophet now sets forth how extremely shameful was the insensibility of the Jews, in not acknowledging that God had most severely and grievously punished the superstitions to which they had previou...
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...
HAVE YE FORGOTTEN THE WICKEDNESS OF YOUR FATHERS,.... And what judgments it brought upon them; meaning not their more remote ancestors in the wilderness, and the idolatry they committed, and the punis...
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they hav...
_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...
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, their manifold evil doings, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR WIVES, AND YOUR OWN WICKEDNESS, AND THE WICKEDNESS O...
JEREMIAH'S FIRST WARNING...
WICKEDNESS: _ Heb._ wickednesses, or, punishments etc....
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...
God accounteth men and women to have forgotten that, the sight and reflection upon which hath made no such impression upon them, as to produce a practice suitable to those notices, according to the co...
Jeremiah 44:9 forgotten H7911 (H8804) wickedness H7451 fathers H1 wickedness H7451 kings H4428 Judah H3063 wickedness H74
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 44:9 The people commit the same acts Jeremiah condemned in Jeremiah 7:16. Despite all they have endured, they continue to reject God’s word revealed through Moses ...
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...
Daniel 9:5; Ezra 9:7; Jeremiah 44:15; Jeremiah 7:17; Jeremiah 7:18;...