Jeremiah 44:6 NLT,NIV,ESV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 44:6-7

Jeremiah 44:6-7. Wherefore my fury, &c., was poured forth, &c. As if he had said, For these very reasons, their idolatry and contempt of my word by my prophets, the very sins you are now committing, I gave Judah and Jerusalem into the hand of the king of Babylon, and they are, as you see this day, waste and desolate. Wherefore commit ye this great evil? &c. What sort of prudence is it that influences you to do such actions as these, by which you cannot injure God. but... 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 44:4-6

This destruction had come after the Lord had sent His servants-the prophets-repeatedly, to warn the people that He hated what they were doing. Yet they did not listen and repent; they continued sacrificing to pagan gods. Their failure to repent was the cause of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem. 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

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

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 44:6

44:6 Wherefore {c} my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.(c) He sets before their eyes God’s judgments against Judah and Jerusalem for their idolatry that they might beware by their example, and not with the same wickedness provoke the Lord: for then they would be double punished. 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

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:6

Forth, drop by drop, chap. xlii. 18. I have repeatedly warned them by punishments. (Haydock) read more