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Jeremiah 44:3

And King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.

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In The King James Version

Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

In Context

2And he and his servants and the people of the land hearkened not to the words of the Lord, which he spoke by Jeremiah.

4Now Jeremiah came and went through the midst of the city: for they had not put him into the house of the prison.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:25And men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:

Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; 1 To gods whom they knew not: 1 New and fresh gods came in, 1 Whom their fathers knew not. 1

Jeremiah 4:17As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because thou, saith the Lord, hast neglected me.

Jeremiah 5:29Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 9:12And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to my voice;

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 →

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