Jeremiah 44:30 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

Daring sinners may speak many a bold word and many a big word, but, after all, God will have the last word; for he will be justified when he speaks, and all flesh, even the proudest, shall be silent before him. Prophets may be run down, but God cannot; nay, here the prophet would not. I. Jeremiah has something to say to them from himself, which he could say without a spirit of prophecy, and that was to rectify their mistake (a wilful mistake it was) concerning the calamities they had been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:30

Thus saith the Lord, behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt ,.... Pharaoh was a common name of the kings of Egypt, who usually had some surname, by which they were distinguished; and the surname of the then present king of Egypt was Hophra; whom the Septuagint and others call Vaphres; and, Herodotus F12 Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 161,162,169. & Melpomene, sive l. 4. c. 159. Apries. The Targum renders it Pharaoh the broken; and the Syriac version Pharaoh the lame: now it is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:30

Behold I will give Pharaoh-hophra - That is, Pharaoh Apries. How this and the prophecies in the preceding chapter were fulfilled, we learn from ancient historians. The sum of such information is this: the subjects of Pharaoh Apries rebelling, he sent Amasis, one of his generals, to reduce them to their duty. But no sooner had Amasis begun to make his speech, than they fixed a helmet on his head, and proclaimed him king. Amasis accepted the title, and confirmed the Egyptians in their revolt;... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:30

Verse 30 This sign then had a reference to what was future. But the sign given to Moses was retrospective, for the people more clearly saw that God had been their deliverer, because it had been predicted to Moses when yet in the desert that the Israelites would come there; and that place, even Mount Sinai, had been already destined for that worship which afterwards was presented to God. The people at the time considered this, and by calling to mind what had been predicted, they were more and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

Jeremiah's last sermon. There are other prophecies of Jeremiah recorded in this book in the chapters that remain, but this discourse is the last that we know of his delivering. And with it the curtain falls upon this great prophet of God; upon Baruch, his beloved companion and helper; and upon the wretched Jews for whose good he had laboured, but in vain. A long interval separates it from that in the previous chapter; for we see the people not now at Tahpanhes, at the border of Egypt, but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

The end of Jeremiah; or, going down in clouds. With this chapter Jeremiah disappears from view. The sadness which surrounded his first ministry accompanies it to the last and deepens at its close; like a sunset in clouds, going down in darkness and storm, The path along which he had been led had been via crucis, a via dolorosa indeed; a lifelong tragedy, an unceasing pain. We can only hope that death came soon to him after his recorded history closes. We have seen him torn from his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

Jeremiah's rejoinder. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:30

I will give Pharaoh-hophra, etc. The sign consists in the capture of Hophra by his deadly enemies. Henceforth he will live in constant alarm, for he is in the hands of those "that seek his life." All that we know of the fate of Hophra is derived from Herodotus (2:169), who states that Amssis "gave Apries over into the hands of his former subjects, to deal with as they chose. Then the Egyptians took him and strangled him" (see further on Jeremiah 46:13 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 44:24-30

Earnest as was the preceding expostulation, Jeremiah sees that it has produced no effect. He therefore utters his last warning, and with this last resistance to the sins of a debased and godless people, his earthly ministry closed.Jeremiah 44:25And fulfilled with your hand - Your hands. Jeremiah pointed to their hands, in which they were carrying the crescent-shaped cakes which they had vowed to the goddess. Their idolatry therefore was an accomplished deed, as the symbols held in their hands... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 44:29-30

Jeremiah 44:29-30. And this shall be a sign unto you Signs are usually antecedent to the thing signified, as Isaiah 38:7; but here, as Exodus 3:12, Isaiah 37:30, and Luke 2:12, the word is taken, in a larger sense, for a circumstance that should attend the thing signified. It may be observed, however, that although the destruction of these Jews, and that of Pharaoh, were things immediately following each other, yet the latter was in order before the other. I will give Pharaoh-hophra into... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:30

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 44:24-30

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 44:29-30

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