What does Jeremiah 44:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods."
Verse Jeremiah 44:5. _BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT_] 1. They disregarded the _authority_ of their God. 2. They were not _moved_ by the _entreaties_ of their most affectionate Father. 3. In abominations t...
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 44:20) 5. The sign...
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...
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 glim...
_BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR TO TURN FROM THEIR WICKEDNESS, TO BURN NO INCENSE UNTO OTHER GODS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
וְ לֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ וְ לֹא ־הִטּ֣וּ אֶת ־אָזְנָ֔ם לָ שׁ֖וּב מֵ רָֽעָתָ֑ם לְ בִלְתִּ֥י...
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...
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...
And he adds, _But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to alien gods _Here God charges the Jews with irreclaimable obstinacy, for the teaching o...
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...
BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR,.... To the prophets sent unto them; to God by the prophets; to the words of his mouth, particularly to the above pathetic expostulation with them; at le...
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Ver. 5. _But they hearkened not._] See Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 7:26 ....
_Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem_ He refers to the late destruction of it by the king of Babylon: this remnant of the people was a brand plucked out of the burning, and thei...
JEREMIAH'S FIRST WARNING...
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 pro...
These two verses contain another aggravation of this people's sin, viz. that they did this against light, and admonitions to the contrary. God had by his prophets let them know that this was an abomin...
Jeremiah 44:5 listen H8085 (H8804) incline H5186 (H8689) ear H241 turn H7725 (H8800) wickedness H7451 incense H6999 (H8763) other H312 gods H430 they - Jeremiah 7:24; 2 Chronicles 36:16;...
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...
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 44:4 This disaster came upon Jerusalem because the people rejected God’s SERVANTS THE PROPHETS and refused TO TURN from idolatry (Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 35:15). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var i...
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 tu...
2 Chronicles 36:16; Isaiah 48:18; Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 44:17; Jeremiah 7:24; Psalms 81:11; Revelation 2:21; Revelation 2:22;...