Jeremiah 44

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:6

Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth ,.... Like melted metal, scalding lead, liquefied pitch, or anything of a bituminous and sulphurous nature, which spreads, is consuming, and very intolerable; see Jeremiah 42:18 ; and was kindled in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem ; which, like a fire, burnt up and destroyed these cities, and particularly the large and spacious city of Jerusalem: and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day ; now lie in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:7

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 commit ye this great evil against your souls ; the sin of idolatry, which is a great evil; a sin against God; a giving the glory to another, that belongs to him and not only so, but is against the souls of men; pernicious and ruinous to them, which brings destruction, even eternal wrath... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:8

In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands ,.... Their sinful actions, particularly their idolatry, by worshipping images, the works of men's hands; and though it was the queen of heaven they worshipped, which their hands made not, yet it was before images they did that; besides, the things they did to her were the worlds of their hands, as sacrificing, pouring out drink offerings, and as follows: burning incense ; which they did, not only to her, but to other gods... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:9

Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers ,.... And what judgments it brought upon them; meaning not their more remote ancestors in the wilderness, and the idolatry they committed, and the punishment inflicted upon them for it; but more near, such who lived a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, and whose sins had brought on that; and therefore could not be easily forgotten by them; or, if they were forgotten, it argued great stupidity: and the wickedness of the kings of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:10

They are not humbled even unto this day ,.... Not contrite under a sense of their sins, nor truly penitent for them; not humbled before God nor man, so as to acknowledge them, mourn over them, and forsake them. The Targum is, "they cease not unto this day;' that is, from committing the same things; which shows they had no true humiliation and contrition for them. This is to be understood, not of the Jews in Babylon only, but chiefly of those in Egypt; there being a change of person... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:11

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ,.... Because of these sins of idolatry, impenitence, and disobedience: I will set my face against you for evil ; to bring the evil of punishment upon them, for the evil of sin committed by them: this the Lord determined with himself, and resolved to do; which the phrase, "setting his face against them ", is expressive of, by way of retaliation for their setting their faces to go down to Egypt, as well as of his wrath and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:12

And I will take the remnant of Judah ,.... Such as remained of that tribe in the land of Judea after the captivity: and not all of them, but such that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there : who were bent upon going thither, notwithstanding all the remonstrances made to them to the contrary; and were gone thither, and were now actually sojourners there: this describes such persons who wilfully, and of their own accord, went thither; and excepts those who were... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:13

For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt ,.... Or "visit"; in a way of wrath and vengeance; meaning not the native inhabitants of Egypt; though these should be punished, and in whose punishment the Jews would be involved; but here it means the Jews that dwelt in Egypt, who went thither contrary to the will of God, and there settled: as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence ; signifying that the same punishment that came upon the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:14

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 sword, or the famine, or the pestilence, or remain in the land of Egypt, or in the land of the living; so general should be the destruction: that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return there ; or, "have lift up their souls F2 מנשאים את... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men which knew that their wires had burnt incense unto other gods ,.... Which was a rite God appointed to be used in his worship; and is here put for the whole of religious worship, which was given to idols by the Jewish women; this their husbands knew of, and winked at, and did not restrain them from it, as they should; they seem to be themselves irreligious persons, a sort of atheists, who had no regard for the true God, nor any other gods, and cared not who were worshipped: ... read more

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