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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 44:18 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 44:18 |
Strong Concordance |
But since we left off [02308] to burn incense [06999] to the queen [04446] of heaven [08064], and to pour out [05258] drink offerings [05262] unto her, we have wanted [02637] all things, and have been consumed [08552] by the sword [02719] and by the famine [07458]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
They impute their calamities to their service of God, but these are often marks of His favor, not of wrath, to do His people good at their latter end (Deu 8:16). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The suppression of this popular idolatry had apparently been regarded with much ill-will in Josiah's time, and many may even have ascribed to it his defeat at Megiddo. Probably Jehoiakim had again permitted it, but Zedekiah, during the miseries of his reign, had forbidden it, and the people ascribed the fall of Jerusalem to the neglect of their favorite goddess. |
16 Who fed [0398] thee in the wilderness [04057] with manna [04478], which thy fathers [01] knew [03045] not, that he might humble [06031] thee, and that he might prove [05254] thee, to do thee good [03190] at thy latter end [0319];