Jeremiah 44:16

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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we: Jeremiah 16:15-17, Jeremiah 8:6, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 38:4, Exodus 5:2, Job 15:25-27, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Psalms 2:3, Psalms 73:8, Psalms 73:9, Isaiah 3:9, Daniel 3:15, Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27

Reciprocal: Numbers 25:6 - in the sight of Moses Deuteronomy 29:19 - that he bless Judges 17:6 - right 1 Samuel 8:19 - refused to obey Nehemiah 9:29 - yet they Psalms 81:12 - they walked Psalms 107:11 - contemned Psalms 119:21 - cursed Proverbs 13:13 - despiseth Proverbs 21:29 - hardeneth Proverbs 27:22 - General Ecclesiastes 8:3 - stand Ecclesiastes 11:9 - walk Isaiah 28:12 - yet Isaiah 30:15 - and ye Jeremiah 3:3 - a whore's Jeremiah 6:16 - We will Jeremiah 7:26 - they hearkened Jeremiah 17:27 - ye will Jeremiah 42:13 - General Jeremiah 44:24 - Hear Jeremiah 44:28 - shall know Ezekiel 3:7 - Israel will Ezekiel 14:3 - and put Ezekiel 22:24 - General Ezekiel 24:12 - her great Ezekiel 33:31 - and they Daniel 9:6 - have we Hosea 11:2 - they called Zechariah 1:4 - but Zechariah 7:11 - they refused Matthew 21:29 - I will not Matthew 25:24 - I knew Mark 7:9 - Full Mark 12:3 - and sent Luke 6:49 - that heareth Acts 14:18 - scarce 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - because James 1:23 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 37:7
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine."

Genesis 37:9
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

Genesis 44:8
We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal gold and silver from your master's house?

Genesis 44:9
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord."

Genesis 44:18
Then Judah approached Joseph and said, "Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are an equal to Pharaoh.

Genesis 44:21
Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.'

Genesis 44:22
So we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'

Genesis 44:28
When one of them left me, I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces." And I have not seen him since.

Genesis 44:32
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father, saying, 'If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.'

Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD-and be assured that your sin will find you out.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[As for] the word that thou has, spoken unto us in the name of the Lord,.... Which they did not believe that it came from the Lord, but was a device of the prophet's, and a lie, as in Jeremiah 43:2; and if it did come from the Lord, their impudence was risen to such a pitch, that they were determined not to regard it:

we will not hearken unto thee: to thy words; neither to thy exhortations, reproofs, or menaces, even though thou comest and speakest in the name of the Lord. This, and what follows, is an unparalleled instance of the pride, obstinacy, enmity, and rebellion of the carnal mind against God.