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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 44:20

Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Moon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Queen of Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Queen of Heaven;   Stars;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Idolatry;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But Jeremiah responded to all the people—the men, women, and all the people who were answering him:
Hebrew Names Version
Then Yirmeyahu said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him who answer, saying,
King James Version
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
English Standard Version
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:
New American Standard Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women—even to all the people who were giving him such an answer—saying,
New Century Version
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people—men and women—who answered him.
Amplified Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had given him that answer,
World English Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him who answer, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then said Ieremiah vnto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had giuen him that answere, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women—even to all the people who were answering him with such a word—saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people who were answering him, both men and women,
Contemporary English Version
Then I told the crowd:
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Yirmeyahu said to all the people — to the men, the women, and all the people who had answered him back:
Darby Translation
And Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the men and women who told him these things.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had given him that answer, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who answered him a word, saying,
Literal Translation
Then Jeremiah said to all the people; to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who were answering,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde Ieremy vnto all the people, to the men, to the women and to all the folke, which had geuen him that answere:
American Standard Version
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,
Bible in Basic English
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women and all the people who had given him that answer,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Then Ieremiah sayd vnto all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people which had giuen him that answere, saying;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then saide Ieremie vnto all the people, to the men, to the women, and to all the folke whiche had geuen hym that aunswere:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication come before thy face: and why dost thou send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? and let me not on any account die there.
English Revised Version
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jeremye seide to al the puple, ayens the men, and ayens the wymmen, and ayens al the puple, that answeriden to hym the word, and he seide,
Update Bible Version
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the [prominent] men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who had given him [that] answer, saying,
New English Translation
Then Jeremiah replied to all the people, both men and women, who responded to him in this way.
New King James Version
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people--the men, the women, and all the people who had given him that answer--saying:
New Living Translation
Then Jeremiah said to all of them, men and women alike, who had given him that answer,
New Life Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both the men and women, who had given him this answer,
New Revised Standard
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who were giving him this answer:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Jeremiah unto all the people, - against the men and against the women, and against all the people who had been making any answer unto him, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:
Revised Standard Version
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:
Young's Literal Translation
And Jeremiah saith unto all the people, concerning the men and concerning the women, and concerning all the people who are answering him, saying:
THE MESSAGE
Then Jeremiah spoke up, confronting the men and the women, all the people who had answered so insolently. He said, "The sacrifices that you and your parents, your kings, your government officials, and the common people of the land offered up in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem—don't you think God noticed? He noticed, all right. And he got fed up. Finally, he couldn't take your evil behavior and your disgusting acts any longer. Your land became a wasteland, a death valley, a horror story, a ghost town. And it continues to be just that. This doom has come upon you because you kept offering all those sacrifices, and you sinned against God ! You refused to listen to him, wouldn't live the way he directed, ignored the covenant conditions."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women—even to all the people who were giving him such an answer—saying,

Contextual Overview

20 Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way, 21 "As for the sacrifices which you and your ancestors, your kings and your leaders, and the people of the land offered in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—do you think that the Lord did not know about them or that he forgot them? 22 This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight, and people use its name as a curse because the Lord could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices. 23 This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against the Lord by not obeying all his commands." 24I told all the people, especially the women, what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, was saying to the people of Judah living in Egypt: "Both you and your wives have made solemn promises to the Queen of Heaven. You promised that you would offer sacrifices to her and pour out wine offerings to her, and you have kept your promises. Very well, then! Keep your promises! Carry out your vows! 26 But now listen to the vow that I, the Lord , have made in my mighty name to all you Israelites in Egypt: Never again will I let any of you use my name to make a vow by saying, ‘I swear by the living Sovereign Lord !' 27 I will see to it that you will not prosper, but will be destroyed. All of you will die, either in war or of disease, until not one of you is left. 28 But a few of you will escape death and return from Egypt to Judah. Then the survivors will know whose words have come true, mine or theirs. 29 I, the Lord , will give you proof that I will punish you in this place and that my promise to bring destruction on you will come true. 30 I will hand over King Hophra of Egypt to his enemies who want to kill him, just as I handed over King Zedekiah of Judah to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, who was his enemy and wanted to kill him."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 28:23 - But they were Romans 6:21 - What

Cross-References

Genesis 35:18
But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 37:3
Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he had been born to him when he was old. He made a long robe with full sleeves for him.
Genesis 37:19
They said to one another, "Here comes that dreamer.
Genesis 42:13
They said, "We were twelve brothers in all, sir, sons of the same man in the land of Canaan. One brother is dead, and the youngest is now with our father."
Genesis 42:36
Their father said to them, "Do you want to make me lose all my children? Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take away Benjamin. I am the one who suffers!"
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, "My son cannot go with you; his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. Something might happen to him on the way. I am an old man, and the sorrow you would cause me would kill me."
Genesis 44:7
They answered him, "What do you mean, sir, by talking like this? We swear that we have done no such thing.
Genesis 44:8
You know that we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found in the top of our sacks. Why then should we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
Genesis 44:27
Our father said to us, ‘You know that my wife Rachel bore me only two sons.
Genesis 44:30
"And now, sir," Judah continued, "if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Jeremiah said unto all the people,.... Immediately, being influenced, directed, and assisted by the Spirit of God; though what he says, in Jeremiah 44:21; he does not declare as coming from the Lord; but what was upon his mind, and was a full refutation of all that had been said: and which he delivered

to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer; in which they all agreed, though delivered by one; and to which he made a reply:

saying; as follows:


 
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