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Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)
Yeremya 44:18
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we have: Jeremiah 40:12, Numbers 11:5, Numbers 11:6, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Psalms 73:9-15, Malachi 3:13-15
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:48 - in hunger Isaiah 48:5 - Mine idol Isaiah 57:10 - There is Jeremiah 44:23 - ye have burned Jeremiah 44:27 - shall be Hosea 2:5 - give Hosea 2:8 - her corn Hosea 7:13 - spoken Micah 1:7 - the hires Haggai 1:6 - eat
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven,.... Or were restrained from it, as the Targum, through the force of the prophet's sermons, or by the authority of their governors: this Abarbinel thinks was in the times of Jehoiakim, Jehoiakim and Zedekiah; but perhaps it only regards some space of time in the latter part of Zedekiah's reign, a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, when they refrained from their idolatry; fearing the wrath of God, and what was coming upon them; though Kimchi is of opinion that they never ceased; but they would say, when any evil came upon them, it was because they ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven, of were not so ready to it as at first:
and to pour out drink offerings to her: another part of worship they performed to her but for a while left off: and from that time they say,
we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword, and by the famine; wanted all the necessaries of life, meat and drink, and clothing and a habitation to dwell in; and multitudes were destroyed by the sword of the king of Babylon; and others perished with famine during the siege; these evils they imputed to their cessation from idolatry, when it was the very thing that brought them on them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The suppression of this popular idolatry had apparently been regarded with much ill-will in Josiah’s time, and many may even have ascribed to it his defeat at Megiddo. Probably Jehoiakim had again permitted it, but Zedekiah, during the miseries of his reign, had forbidden it, and the people ascribed the fall of Jerusalem to the neglect of their favorite goddess.
