Jeremiah 44:19

Worship] RM 'pourtray,'refer-ring to the full moon, as represented either by the shape of the cake itself or by a'figure upon it. Men] RV 'husbands.'A wife's vow was not binding unless with the consent of the husband: see Numbers 30:6.

20-23. Jeremiah answers. It was, he says, owing to the idolatry, which had been so long rampant and which Josiah's reforms had scotched, not killed, that the overthrow at last came.