Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:
Cross References
Numbers 30:2And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:
Deuteronomy 23:23But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.
2 Kings 17:16And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal.
Nehemiah 9:34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.
Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
Jeremiah 7:17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 44:16-20
The People's Insolent Reply. ( b. c. 587.) 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, 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord , we will not hearken unto thee. 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… Read the whole commentary →