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Yeremya 44:9
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye forgotten: Joshua 22:17-20, Ezra 9:7-15, Daniel 9:5-8
wickedness: Heb. wickedness, or punishments, etc
the wickedness of your: Jeremiah 44:15-19, Jeremiah 7:17, Jeremiah 7:18
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 13:18 - Did not your Psalms 119:21 - cursed Jeremiah 44:17 - in the cities Jeremiah 44:21 - and in
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers,.... And what judgments it brought upon them; meaning not their more remote ancestors in the wilderness, and the idolatry they committed, and the punishment inflicted upon them for it; but more near, such who lived a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, and whose sins had brought on that; and therefore could not be easily forgotten by them; or, if they were forgotten, it argued great stupidity:
and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives; by whom they were drawn into idolatry, particularly Solomon; and it is in the original text, "the wickedness of his wives" z; and Dr. Lightfoot thinks respect is had to Solomon's wives; but it may be understood distributively of everyone of their wives, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it a:
and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which you have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? where they had built altars, and worshipped strange gods, they, and their wives, as well as those who were carried captive; and which were the cause of all those evils that came upon them; these, being recent things, could not be forgotten by them; or however should have been remembered, and that so as to have deterred them from going into such practices again, as they now did in Egypt.
z רעות נשיו "mala mulierum ejus", Schmidt; "et mala foeminarum ejus", Cocceius; "uxorum ejus", V. L. Montanus. a "Et mala uxorum cujusque illorum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The wickedness of their wives - Many accept the reading of the Septuagint: the “wickedness of your princes.” “The kings, the princes, the people,” and finally “their wives,” is a summary enumeration of all classes, by whose united persistence in sin the ruin of their country had been consummated.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 44:9. Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers — It seems that the women were principal agents in idolatrous practices; for the queens - the wives, of rulers and of common people, burnt incense to the queen of heaven, (the moon,) Jeremiah 44:17, and poured out drink-offerings to her.