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Text -- Jeremiah 44:22-30 (NET)
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44:22 Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did . That is why your land has become the desolate , uninhabited ruin that it is today . That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses .
44:23 You have sacrificed to other gods! You have sinned against the Lord ! You have not obeyed the Lord ! You have not followed his laws , his statutes , and his decrees ! That is why this disaster that is evident to this day has happened to you.”
44:24 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people , particularly to all the women . “Listen to what the Lord has to say all you people of Judah who are in Egypt .
44:25 The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says , ‘You women have confirmed by your actions what you vowed with your lips ! You said , “We will certainly carry out our vows to sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven .” Well, then fulfill your vows ! Carry them out !’
44:26 But listen to what the Lord has to say , all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt . The Lord says , ‘I hereby swear by my own great name that none of the people of Judah who are living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name in their oaths ! Never again will any of them use it in an oath saying , “As surely as the Lord God lives ….”
44:27 I will indeed see to it that disaster , not prosperity , happens to them. All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left .
44:28 Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt . But they will be very few indeed! Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true , mine or theirs .’
44:29 Moreover the Lord says , ‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place . I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true.
44:30 I, the Lord , promise that I will hand Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , his enemy who was seeking to kill him.’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Egypt |
Pharaoh |
Israel |
Idolatry |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
JEREMIAH (2) |
Noph |
Hophra |
Moon |
QUEEN OF HEAVEN |
Covenant |
Wicked |
Women |
Remnant |
Sin |
PHARAOH HOPHRA |
ACCOMPLISH |
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2A |
Ashtoreth |
Queen |
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NET Notes: Jer 44:22 Heb “And/Then the Lord could no longer endure because of the evil of your deeds [and] because of the detestable things that you did and [or so] ...
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NET Notes: Jer 44:23 Heb “Because you have sacrificed and you have sinned against the Lord and you have not listened to the voice of the Lord and in his laws, in his...
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NET Notes: Jer 44:24 Heb “and to all the women.” The “and” (ו, vav) is to be explained here according to BDB 252 s.v. וַ 1.a. The...
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NET Notes: Jer 44:25 The commands here are, of course, sarcastic and not meant to be taken literally.
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NET Notes: Jer 44:26 They will no longer be able to invoke his name in an oath because they will all be put to death (v. 27; cf. vv. 11-14).
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NET Notes: Jer 44:27 Heb “Behold, I am watching over them for evil/disaster/harm not for good/prosperity/ blessing.” See a parallel usage in 31:28.
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NET Notes: Jer 44:28 Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם ...
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NET Notes: Jer 44:29 Heb “This will be to you the sign, oracle of the Lord, that I will punish you in this place in order that you may know that my threats against y...
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