Jeremiah 44:7-52:34

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:7

Against your souls; i.e. against yourselves. The "soul" is the personality. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 44:7

Your souls - i. e., your own selves. read more

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 44:7

the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. See note on Jeremiah 35:17 . God. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, omit "the God". against your souls. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 16:38 ). souls. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . man. Hebrew ' ish . App-14 . child = little one. out of Judah = out of the midst of Judah. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 44:7

Jeremiah 44:7. To cut off from you man and woman— It was the design or will of God, that this remnant should have kept possession of Judaea; but by going into Egypt, and defiling themselves with the idolatry of that nation, they provoked him to destroy them utterly. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 44:7

7. now—after so many warnings. commit . . . this . . . evil against your souls— (Jeremiah 7:19; Numbers 16:38; Proverbs 8:36). It is not God whom you injure, but yourselves. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 44:7-8

The Lord asked why, then, His people continued to practice idolatry in Egypt. They were doing there exactly what they had done in Judah, and that had resulted in Yahweh’s judgment of them. If they continued to practice idolatry, the Lord would cut them off completely and would make them an object of ridicule. 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

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