Jeremiah 44:15

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁵Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, all the women standing by-a great assembly-along with all the people who were living in the land of Egypt at Pathros, answered Jeremiah,¹⁶"As for the word you spoke to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you! ¹⁷Instead, we will do everything we said: We will burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster. ¹⁸But from the time we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine." ¹⁹"Moreover," said the women, "when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"

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all the: Jeremiah 5:1-5, Genesis 19:4, Nehemiah 13:26, Proverbs 11:21, Isaiah 1:5, Matthew 7:13, 2 Peter 2:1, 2 Peter 2:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:1 - put incense 2 Chronicles 28:23 - sacrifice to them Proverbs 27:22 - General Isaiah 5:18 - draw Jeremiah 18:15 - burned Jeremiah 44:9 - the wickedness of your Jeremiah 44:19 - we burned Jeremiah 44:24 - all Judah Jeremiah 44:25 - Ye and Ezekiel 33:25 - lift up Hosea 11:2 - burned

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."

Genesis 4:10
"What have you done?" replied the LORD. "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Genesis 21:26
Abimelech replied, "I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today."

Genesis 39:8
But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Genesis 44:4
They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, "Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?

Genesis 44:5
Is this not the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!'"

Exodus 32:1
Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then all the men which knew that their wires had burnt incense unto other gods,.... Which was a rite God appointed to be used in his worship; and is here put for the whole of religious worship, which was given to idols by the Jewish women; this their husbands knew of, and winked at, and did not restrain them from it, as they should; they seem to be themselves irreligious persons, a sort of atheists, who had no regard for the true God, nor any other gods, and cared not who were worshipped:

and all the women that stood by; the wives of the men that stood by their husbands, and other women that stood and heard Jeremiah's sermon, and were conscious to themselves of being guilty of what they were charged with by him:

a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt,

in Pathros; in that part of Egypt so called, which was Thebais: here it seems Jeremiah was with that part of the people that took up their residence there; and by this it appears there was a large number of them, men and women, and who were all become idolaters, or connivers at, and encouragers of, such as were: these

answered Jeremiah, saying, one in the name of the rest made a reply, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Had burned incence - Omit “had;” burned incense. This appeal of the prophet was made at a public festival held somewhere in Pathros, i. e., Upper Egypt: for the women are assembled in a great congregation (compare Jeremiah 26:9), here formed for religious purposes. As they advance in regular procession to worship the moon-goddess, in accordance as it seems with a vow Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah meets them, makes the procession halt upon its way, and pronounces in Yahweh’s name words of solemn warning. The reply that all the settlers in Egypt were formally putting themselves under the Queen of heaven’s protection was made by the heads of the congregation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 44:15. Then all the men - and all the women — We have not seen the women in determined rebellion before. Here they make a common cause with their idolatrous husbands.