Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30
Message to the Judeans in Egypt (44:1-30)Once they had settled down in Egypt, the Judeans soon copied Egyptian religious practices. Jeremiah begins his warnings to them with the reminder of what happened to Jerusalem. The city was destroyed and the people of Judah sent into Babylonian exile because of their false religion and idolatry (44:1-6). Yet the Judeans who escaped to Egypt have not heeded the lesson. God had promised to preserve a minority of the people taken captive to Babylon, but he... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 44:8-10
Jeremiah 44:8-10. Ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands By making and setting up idols to worship. That ye might cut yourselves off, &c. This is not to be so taken as if they did these things with a design to cut off themselves and their posterity: but only as signifying that their utter ruin would be the certain consequence of their continuing so to act. Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers? &c. Have you forgotten what great wickedness your fathers... read more