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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 44:14

To the which they have a desire to return. — Literally, unto which they lift up their souls to return. The words are significant as showing that the exiles still cherished the hope of getting back to the land of their fathers.

None shall return but such as shall escape. — The words seem at first a truism, but they imply that the escape would be difficult. The formula seems to have been not uncommon (Ezekiel 7:16). In Jeremiah 44:28 we have the fact more definitely stated: there should be, as in previous chastisements, a remnant, and a remnant only (Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 6:13). By some critics the limiting clause has been looked on as an interpolation, inserted to bring the verse into agreement with Jeremiah 44:28.

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See also Jeremiah 44:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Literally, “And there shall not be to the remnant of Judah, which are going to sojourn there in the land of Egypt, one that escapes or remains etc.” The word rendered “escapes” means one who slips awa...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAVE. DESIRE. lift up their soul. Hebrew. _nephesh,_ App-13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the ch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _have a desire_ For lit. Heb. See on Jeremiah 22:27. _for none … escape_ perhaps added afterwards as a correction to the earlier part of the _v_. on account of the actual return of certain fugitives....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO THAT NONE, &C.— Houbigant renders the last clause, _Nor shall they return, except a few who shall escape._ It is evident from Jeremiah 44:28 that some Jews were to escape the general destruction in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire t...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לֹ֨א יִהְיֶ֜ה פָּלִ֤יט וְ שָׂרִיד֙ 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to retu...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Desire and expectation, chap. xxii. 27. They meant to return as soon as the Chaldeans had left the country: but their hose were vain. The enemy would fall upon Egypt, after he had taken Tyre and the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet seems to be inconsistent with himself; for at the beginning of the verse he says that there would be no residue, but at the end he adds an exception, that there would be few alive, who wou...

  • 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

    SO THAT NONE OF THE REMNANT OF JUDAH,.... Which were left in the land of Judea after the captivity: WHICH ARE GONE INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE, SHALL ESCAPE OR REMAIN; escape either the s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to...

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

    _I will set my face against you for evil_ See note on Jeremiah 21:10. _And I will take_ Or, _I will take away_, namely, by destruction; _the remnant of Judah_, &c. The direful punishments denounced ag...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S FIRST WARNING...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    so that none of the remnant of Judah which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there shall escape or remain that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to re...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HAVE A DESIRE: _ Heb._ lift up their soul...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    There is a great variety in the reading of the words, JEREMIAH 44:14; some reading _besides such as have a desire to return_; others, _although they have a desire to return_; others, _for they have a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 44:14 remnant H7611 Judah H3063 gone H935 (H8802) land H776 Egypt H4714 dwell H1481 (H8800) escape...

  • 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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 44:11 Babylon will complete its role as an instrument of God’s wrath (Jeremiah 27:1) against Judah’s idolatrous REMNANT. Judah will

  • 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

    Hebrews 2:3; Isaiah 10:20; Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 4:2; Jeremiah 22:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For none — Only such shall escape, as have been forced into Egypt against their wills; and as did not fall in with the idolatry of the Egyptians....

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