Jeremiah 44:17

Whatsoever thing goeth forth] RV 'every word that is gone forth.'They refer to their religious vows: cp. Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:23.

Queen of heaven] see on Jeremiah 7:18. Then had we plenty of victuals] They perversely attribute the misfortunes which had befallen their country from the battle of Megiddo and death of Josiah onwards to the attack made upon idolatry (2 Kings 23) by that king, and not to the gradual degradation of the people through the medium of that idolatry during the reigns of Manasseh and A mon and the earlier part of that of Josiah.