1-10 Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry 11-14 He prophesies their destruction, who commit idolatry in Egypt 15-19 The obstinacy of the jews 20-28 For which Jeremiah threatens them 29,30 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt

A.M. 3433 B.C. 571
The word Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem

concerning Jer 42:15-18 43:5-7

Migdol Jer 46:14 Ex 14:2 Eze 29:10

Tahpanhes Tahpanhes, rendered [] and [] by the LXX is no doubt the [] of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphnce Pelusicae. Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name. It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives. It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship. Jer 43:7 Eze 30:18

Tehaphnehes Noph Jer 2:16 46:14,19 Isa 19:13 Eze 30:16

Pathros Ge 30:16

Pathrusim Isa 11:11 Eze 29:14 30:14

2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

Ye have Jer 39:1-8 Ex 19:4 De 29:2 Jos 23:3 Zec 1:6

a desolation Jer 44:22 4:7 7:34 9:11 25:11 34:22 Le 26:32,33,43 2Ki 21:13 Isa 6:11 24:12 64:10,11 La 1:1,16 5:18 Mic 3:12

3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

of their Jer 2:17-19 4:17,18 5:19,29 9:12-14 11:17 16:11,12 19:3,4 22:9 Ezr 9:6-11 Ne 9:33 La 1:8 4:13 Eze 8:17,18 9:9 22:25-31 Da 9:5 Zec 7:12,13

gods De 13:6 29:26 32:17

4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

I sent Jer 7:13,25 25:3,4 26:5 29:19 32:33 35:17 2Ch 36:15 Zec 7:7

this Jer 16:18 Eze 8:10 16:36,47 1Pe 4:3 Re 17:4,5

5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

they Jer 7:24 2Ch 36:16 Ps 81:11-13 Isa 48:4,18 Zec 7:11,12 Re 2:21,22

burn Jer 44:17-21 19:13

6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

my fury Jer 4:4 7:20 21:5,12 36:7 42:18 Le 26:28 Isa 51:17,20 Eze 5:13 6:12 8:18 20:33 24:8,13 Da 9:12 Na 1:2

wasted Jer 44:2,3 Isa 6:11

7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

against Jer 7:19 25:7 42:20 Nu 16:38 Pr 1:18 5:22 8:36 15:32 Eze 33:11 Hab 2:10

to cut Jer 44:8,11 9:21 51:22 Jos 6:21 Jud 21:11

child De 32:25 1Sa 15:3 22:19 La 2:11

judah [heb] the midst of Judah
to leave Jer 44:12,14,27,28

8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

ye provoke Jer 25:6,7 De 32:16,17 2Ki 17:15-17 Isa 3:8 1Co 10:21,22 Heb 3:16

that ye might cut Jer 44:7 Eze 18:31,32

a curse Jer 44:12 18:16 24:9 26:6 29:18 42:18 1Ki 9:7,8 2Ch 7:20 Isa 65:15 La 2:15,16

9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

ye forgotten Jos 22:17-20 Ezr 9:7-15 Da 9:5-8

wickedness [heb] wickedness, or punishments
the wickedness of your Jer 44:15-19 7:17,18

10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

are not Jer 8:12 Ex 9:17 10:3 1Ki 21:29 2Ch 12:6-12 32:26 33:12,19 34:27 Da 5:20-22 Jas 4:6-10 1Pe 5:6

humbled [heb] contrite 2Ki 22:19 Ps 34:18 51:17 Isa 57:15 66:2 Eze 9:4

neither Jer 10:7 36:24 Ex 9:30 Pr 8:13 14:16 16:6 28:14 Ec 8:12,13 Mal 4:2 Mt 27:54 Lu 23:40 Ro 11:20 Re 15:4

11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

I will Jer 21:10 Le 17:10 20:5,6 26:17 Ps 34:16 Eze 14:7,8 15:7 Am 9:4

12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

I will take Jer 42:15-18,22

from the Ho 4:6

and they shall be Jer 44:8 29:22 Isa 65:15

13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

Jer 44:27,28 11:22 21:9 24:10 42:18 43:11

14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

So. It is evident from verse 28, that some Jews were to escape the general destruction in Egypt, and to return into their own country, though but a few; and the same thing is implied in the latter clause of this verse. But the former part excludes from the number of those who should escape every individual of those who are properly termed `the remnant of Judah;' those who had willingly and rebelliously `set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there,' on a presumption that they knew better than God how to consult their own restoration. The few, then, who were destined to escape, were to be such as had come into the land of Egypt with Johanan by compulsion, or had previously fled thither, or in some other less offensive manner, and chanced to be there when the storm burst upon them.

which are Isa 30:1-3

shall escape Jer 44:27 42:17 Mt 23:33 Ro 2:3 Heb 2:3

which they Jer 22:26,27 42:22

have a desire [heb] lift up there soul
for none Jer 44:28 Isa 4:2 10:20 Ro 9:27 11:5,6

15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

all the Jer 5:1-5 Ge 19:4 Ne 13:26 Pr 11:21 Isa 1:5 Mt 7:13 2Pe 2:1,2

16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

we Jer 16:15-17 8:6,12 18:18 38:4 Ex 5:2 Job 15:25-27 21:14,15 Ps 2:3 73:8,9 Isa 3:9 Da 3:15 Lu 19:14,27

17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

whatsoever Jer 44:25 Nu 30:2,12 De 23:23 Jud 11:36 Ps 12:4 Mr 6:26

queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of baal shamayim, `Lord of heaven,' but also by that of Molech, or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as melecheth hashshamayim, `the Queen of heaven.' So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [], Hearm goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddness, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [], a cake. Jer 7:18 2Ki 17:16

as we Jer 19:13 32:29-32 2Ki 22:17 Ne 9:34 Da 9:6-8 1Pe 1:18

in the cities Jer 44:9,21

then Ex 16:3 Isa 48:5 Ho 2:5-9 Php 3:19

victuals [heb] bread

18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

we have Jer 40:12 Nu 11:5,6 Job 21:14,15 Ps 73:9-15 Mal 3:13-15

19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

we burned Jer 44:15 7:18

without Ge 3:6,11,12,16,17 De 7:3,4 1Ki 21:25 2Ch 21:6 Pr 11:21 Mr 6:19-27

men. or, husbands

20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,

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21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

and in Jer 9:17 11:13 Eze 16:24

did Jer 14:10 1Sa 15:3 1Ki 17:18 Ps 79:8 Isa 64:9 Eze 21:23,24 Ho 7:2 Am 8:7 Re 16:19 18:5

22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

could Jer 15:6 Ge 6:3,5-7 Ps 95:10,11 Isa 1:24 7:13 43:24 Eze 5:13 Am 2:13 Mal 2:17 Ro 2:4,5 9:22 2Pe 3:7-9

your land Jer 44:2,6,12 18:16 24:9 25:11,18,38 26:6 29:19 1Ki 9:7,8 La 2:15 2:16 Da 9:12

23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

ye have burned Jer 44:8 18:21 32:31-33 2Ch 36:16 La 1:8 1Co 10:20 2Co 6:16

nor walked Ps 119:155

nor in his testimonies Ps 78:56

therefore 1Ki 9:9 Ne 13:18 Da 9:11,12

24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

Hear Jer 44:16 42:15 1Ki 22:19 Isa 1:10 28:14 Eze 2:7 Am 7:16 Mt 11:15

all Judah Jer 44:15,26 43:7 Eze 20:32,33

25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

Ye and Jer 44:15-19 Isa 28:15 Jude 1:13

We will Mt 14:9 Ac 23:12-15

ye will Job 34:22 Jas 1:14,15

26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

I have sworn Jer 46:18 Ge 22:16 Nu 14:21-23,28 De 32:40-42 Ps 89:34 Isa 62:8 Am 6:8 8:7 Heb 3:18 6:13,18

that my name Ps 50:16 Eze 20:39 Am 6:10

The Lord God Jer 4:2 5:2 7:9 Isa 48:1,2 Zep 1:4,5

27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

will watch Jer 1:10 21:10 31:28 Eze 7:6

shall be Jer 44:12,18 2Ki 21:14

28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.

a small Jer 44:14 Isa 10:19,22 27:12,13

shall know Jer 44:16,17,25,26,29 Nu 14:28,29,41 Ps 33:11 Isa 14:24-27 28:16-18 46:10,11 La 3:37,38 Zec 1:6 Mt 24:35

mine, or theirs [heb] from me or them

29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

a sign Jer 44:30 1Sa 2:34 Mt 24:15,16,32-34 Mr 13:14-16 Lu 21:20,21 21:29-33

my words Pr 19:21 Isa 40:8

30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

I will Jer 43:9-13 46:13-26 Eze 29:1-21 30:1-26 31:18 32:1-32

as I Jer 34:21 39:5-7 52:8-11 2Ki 25:4-7