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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 44:13-14

The Lord would punish His people in Egypt, as He had punished them in Judah, with: warfare, starvation, and disease. All but a few refugees-of the remnant who had fled to Egypt to live there temporarily and then return to Judah-would die in Egypt. They would not return to the Promised Land. Thus this judgment had as its focus those who fled to Egypt for temporary asylum, not all the Jews who had moved there earlier and had made it their permanent home.The Jews then responded to Jeremiah’s... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:1-30

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 idolatry which still characterised the people now that they dwelt in Egypt. Their experience of suffering had taught them nothing.1-10. Jeremiah’s countrymen rebuked.1. Migdol] on the northern boundary of Egypt. For Noph and Tahpanhes see on Jeremiah 2:16.8. The works of your hands] i.e. your idols. Might... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 44:13

(13) I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt.—The words point, like those of Jeremiah 43:11, to a punishment which should fall on the whole of Egypt, and from which the Jews who dwelt in it should find no exemption. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

CHAPTER XVTHE QUEEN OF HEAVENJeremiah 44:1-30"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 sword and the famine."- Jeremiah 44:18THE Jewish exiles in Egypt still retained a semblance of national life, and were bound together by old religious ties. Accordingly we read that they came together from their different settlements-from Migdol and Tahpanhes on the northeastern frontier, from Noph or... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 44:1-30

CHAPTER 44 1. The message to the Jews (Jeremiah 44:1-10 ) 2. Their punishment (Jeremiah 44:11-14 ) 3. Worshipping the queen of heaven (Jeremiah 44:15-19 ) 4. Jehovah’s answer (Jeremiah 44:20-28 ) 5. The sign: Pharaoh-Hophra’s Defeat (Jeremiah 44:29-30 ) Jeremiah 44:1-10 . The message is concerning all the Jews who were now dwelling in Egypt. Besides being in Tahpanhes, they were also in Noph (Memphis) and in Pathros, which was in the upper Egypt. Not long ago ancient papyri in... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

LAST MESSAGE TO THE REMNANT Chapter 40 opens with an account of Nebuchadnezzar’s kindness to Jeremiah, inspired by what he had known of the latter’s advice to his countrymen (Jeremiah 40:1-4 ). Jeremiah had been the friend of Babylon, but not necessarily the enemy of his own nation. His patriotism was unquestioned, but the highest expression of his patriotism was his counsel to Judah to obey the will of God and submit to Babylon. Jeremiah’s choice of action is in Jeremiah 40:5-6 . The new... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-14

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 even here, the same patience and long suffering is set forth. Reader! do not overlook, in Israel's history, our own. Every part and portion of God's word, and every providence, preacheth now as much as then, to the same amount; I am God, and not man, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:1-14

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 provoking to him; if you love your own souls, do not, for it is destructive to them. Let conscience do this for us in the hour of temptation. The Jews whom God sent into the land of the Chaldeans, were there, by the power of God's grace, weaned from idolatry; but those who went by their own perverse... read more

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