Jeremiah 44:3
Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.
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Deuteronomy 29:25Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 32:17They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
Nehemiah 9:33But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
Jeremiah 4:17Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:29Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:12Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 44:2-15
Sermon to the Jews in Egypt; Jeremiah's Remonstrance. ( b. c. 587.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 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, 3 Because of their wickedness which they have… Read the whole commentary →