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whatsoever: Jer 44:25; Num 30:2, Num 30:12; Deu 23:23; Jdg 11:36; Psa 12:4; Mar 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 Κλυθι θεα ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑ, "Hear, goddess Queen." And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, Χαιρε, ανασσα, θεα "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 goddess, 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 κολλυρις, a cake. Jer 7:18; 2Ki 17:16
as we: Jer 19:13, Jer 32:29-32; 2Ki 22:17; Neh 9:34; Dan 9:6-8
our fathers: Neh 9:34; Psa 106:6; Eze 20:8; Dan 9:5-6, Dan 9:8; 1Pe 1:18
in the cities: Jer 44:9, Jer 44:21
then: Exo 16:3; Isa 48:5; Hos 2:5-9; Phi 3:19
victuals: Heb. bread