Jeremiah 44:1

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Contextual Overview

¹This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt-in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis-and in the land of Pathros:²"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation ³because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew. ⁴Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.' ⁵But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods. ⁶Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become the desolate ruin they are today. ⁷So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves? You are cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant, ⁸provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to reside. As a result, you will be cut off and become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth. ⁹Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.

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The word: Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem.

concerning: Jeremiah 42:15-18, Jeremiah 43:5-7

Migdol: Jeremiah 46:14, Exodus 14:2, Ezekiel 29:10,*Heb:

Tahpanhes: Tahpanhes rendered בצםח and בצםבי by the LXX, is no doubt the בצםבי of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphne Pelusice. Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name. It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives. It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship. Jeremiah 43:7, Ezekiel 30:18, Tehaphnehes

Noph: Jeremiah 2:16, Jeremiah 46:14, Jeremiah 46:19, Isaiah 19:13, Ezekiel 30:16

Pathros: Genesis 10:14, Pathrusim, Isaiah 11:11, Ezekiel 29:14, Ezekiel 30:14

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 30:13 - Noph

Cross-References

Genesis 24:2
So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 42:25
Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, return each man's silver to his sack, and give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,

Genesis 43:2
So when Jacob's sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy a little more food for us."

Genesis 43:16
When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, "Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon."

Genesis 43:19
So they approached Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of bread and water,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word which came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt,.... Or, "unto all the Jews" t; the word came to him, that it might be delivered to them; or, "against all the Jews" u; they having gone into Egypt contrary to the will of God, and committing idolatry; and the word or sermon is full of threatenings and judgments denounced upon them:

which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros: this prophecy was delivered after the Jews were come to Tahpanhes, or Daphne; see Jeremiah 43:7; and had divided themselves, and were settled in different parts of the kingdom: some continued at Tahpanhes, where were the king's court and palace: others went to Migdol, a place near the Red sea, just at the entrance into Egypt, from the land of Canaan, Exodus 14:2; called, by Herodotus, Magdolus w; and by Adrichomius x said to be distant about a mile and a quarter from Pelusium, or Sin, the strength of Egypt, Ezekiel 30:15; others took up their residence at Noph, generally thought to be the city of Memphis. The Targum calls it Mappas; the same which is now called Grand Cairo; or, however, this city is near the place where Memphis stood: others dwelt in the country of Pathros, which perhaps had its name from Pathrusim, a son of Mizraim, Genesis 10:13. It is thought by Bochart and others to be the country of Thebais in Egypt, the same with the Nomos Phanturites, or Phaturites, of Pliny y; and in this country Jeremiah seems to have been when this word came to him,

Jeremiah 44:15; and from hence sent or carried it to the other places: saying; as follows:

t אל כל היהודים "ad omnes Judaeos", V. L. Castalio, Cocceius, Schmidt; "erga omnes", Pagninus, Montanus. u "Contra omnes Judaeos", Junius Tremellius "de, [vel] contra", Piscator. w Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 159. x Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 121. y Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Migdol - Magdolum, a strong fortress on the northern boundary of Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XLIV

Jeremiah reproves the Jews in Egypt for continuing in idolatry

after the exemplary judgments indicted by God on their nation

for that sin, 1-14;

and, upon their refusing to reform, denounces destruction to

them, and to that kingdom wherein they sought protection,

15-30.

NOTES ON CHAP. XLIV

Verse Jeremiah 44:1. The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews — Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem.

Which dwell at Migdol — A city of Lower Egypt, not far from Pelusium.

Tahpanhes — Daphne Pelusiaca, the place to which the emigrant Jews first went.

Noph — מפס Maphes, Targum. Memphis. a celebrated city of Middle Egypt, and the capital of its district.

The country of Pathros — A district of Upper Egypt, known by the name of the Thebais. See Bochart, Lib. Phaleg, lib. iv., c. 22. Thus we find that the Jews were scattered over the principal parts of Egypt.