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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 44:17 - 44:17
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whatsoever ... goeth ... out of our ... mouth - whatever vow we have uttered to our gods (Jer 44:25; Deu 23:23; Jdg 11:36). The source of all superstitions is that men oppose their own will and fancies to God’s commands.
queen of heaven - (See on Jer 7:18); Ashtaroth or Astarte.
we ... fathers ... king, etc. - The evil was restricted to no one class: all from the highest to the lowest shared the guilt.
then had we plenty - Fools attribute their seeming prosperity to God’s connivance at their sin: but see Pro 1:32; Ecc 8:11-13. In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jdg 2:14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities.
victuals - Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (Deu 8:3; Joh 6:27). So Esau (Heb 12:16).