Jeremiah 44:21

“Do not think [RHQ] that Yahweh did not know that you and your ancestors and your kings and their officials and all the other people in Judah were burning incense to worship/honor idols in the streets of Jerusalem and in the other towns in Judah!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

In Context

20Then I said to all the men and women who had answered me,

22It was because Yahweh could no longer endure/tolerate your wicked actions and the detestable things that you were doing that he caused your land to be a place whose name people say when they curse someone, a land that is ruined and which has no one living in it. And your land is still like that.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:18So the woman went to Elijah and said to him, “You are a prophet; so why have you done this to me? Have you come here to punish me for my sins by causing my son to die?”

Isaiah 64:9Yahweh, do not continue to be angry with us; do not keep thinking about our sins forever. Do not forget that we are all your people.

Jeremiah 14:10And this is what Yahweh says to those people: “You love to wander away from me; you run [MTY] from one idol to another. Therefore, now I will no longer accept you, and I will punish you for your sins.”

Jeremiah 44:17We will certainly do everything that we said that we would do. We will burn incense to worship our goddess Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out offerings of wine to her, just like we and our ancestors and our kings and their officials have always done in the streets of Jerusalem and in the other towns in Judah. At that time, we had plenty of food, and we were prosperous and we did not have any troubles.

Ezekiel 16:24you built a shrine to worship idols in every city square/plaza.

Hosea 7:2But they do not realize that I do not forget all the evil things that they do. It is as though they are surrounded by all the sins that they commit; and it is though those sins are always right in front of me [MTY].

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 44:21-30

Jeremiah's Continued Remonstrance. ( b. c. 587.) 20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his mind? 22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the… Read the whole commentary →

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