Jeremiah 44:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 44:15

Had burned incence - Omit “had;” burned incense. This appeal of the prophet was made at a public festival held somewhere in Pathros, i. e., Upper Egypt: for the women are assembled in a great congregation (compare Jeremiah 26:9), here formed for religious purposes. As they advance in regular procession to worship the moon-goddess, in accordance as it seems with a vow Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah meets them, makes the procession halt upon its way, and pronounces in Yahweh’s name words of solemn... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 44:15

Jeremiah 44:15. Then all the men and all the women that dwelt in Pathros Which was Upper Egypt; answered Jeremiah, &c. From this it appears with how much reason it was that God ordered Jeremiah to endeavour to prevent their going into Egypt, since the Israelitish women imitated the idolatry of the inhabitants of it, as soon as they came thither, and no people were immersed in a more absurd and shameful idolatry than the Egyptians. It is probable that when the Jewish women perceived... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 44:15

all. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), for the specified part. men. Hebrew, plural of enosh App-14 : i.e. the husbands. multitude = assembly. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:15

JUDAH'S NEW GOD; THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN"Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, and answered Jeremiah, saying, As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, and to pour out... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 44:15

15. their wives—The idolatry began with them (1 Kings 11:4; 1 Timothy 2:14). Their husbands' connivance implicated them in the guilt. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 44:15-16

The Jews to whom this message was sent replied that they were not going to listen to Jeremiah. The wives of many of the Jewish men were burning sacrifices to pagan deities, with their husbands’ knowledge, along with other women. 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 44:15

(15) All the men which knew that their wives had burned incense.—The fact thus mentioned incidentally shows that the prophet’s words in Jeremiah 44:9 had not missed their mark. As of old—as, we may add, in the Rome of the Empire (Juvenal, Sat. vi. 526–534)—the women practised a cultus in which their husbands acquiesced, even though they did not join in it. 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

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