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YOUR SOULS - i. e., your own selves....
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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 ...
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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...
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THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah
35:17.
GOD. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint,
Syriac, and Vulgate, omit "the God".
AGAINST YOUR SOULS. Re...
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_against your own souls_ See on Jeremiah 42:20, and cp. Jeremiah
26:19....
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TO CUT OFF FROM YOU MAN AND WOMAN— It was the design or will of God,
that this remnant should have kept possession of Judaea; but by going
into Egypt, and defiling themselves with the idolatry of that...
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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...
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Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut
off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to...
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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...
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וְ עַתָּ֡ה כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֩
אֱלֹהֵ֨י צְב
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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...
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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...
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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...
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He then adds, _Why then do ye now this great evil against your own
souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, _from
the midst of Judah, _that nothing may remain for you? he _re at l...
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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...
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THEREFORE NOW THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF
ISRAEL,.... The same epithets as before, Jeremiah 44:2; with an
addition, that his words might carry more weight with them:
WHEREFORE C...
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Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against your souls, to
cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, t...
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_Wherefore my fury, &c., was poured forth_, &c. As if he had said, For
these very reasons, their idolatry and contempt of my word by my
prophets, the very sins you are now committing, I gave Judah and...
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JEREMIAH'S FIRST WARNING...
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Therefore, now, thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel, Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to the
destruction of their own lives, for they were not injuring the...
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OUT OF JUDAH:
_ Heb._ out of the midst of Judah...
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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...
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What prudence can guide you to do such actions as these, by which you
cannot hurt God, but yourselves only? You are now but a few of many;
what love have you for your country, in taking courses which...
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Jeremiah 44:7 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 hosts H6635 God
H430 Israel H3478 commit H6213 ...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 22:19; Deuteronomy 32:25; Ezekiel 33:11;...