Jeremiah 44:3

This is because of the wicked things they did to offend me by going to burn incense and to worship other gods. These were gods that neither they themselves, nor you, nor your ancestors knew.'

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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

2“Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says, 'You yourselves have seen all the disasters that I brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah. See, they are ruins today. There is no one to live in them.

4So I repeatedly sent all of my servants the prophets to them. I sent them to say, 'Stop doing these abominable things that I hate.'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:25Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, that he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to demons, which are not God— 1 gods they had not known, 1 gods that recently appeared, 1 gods your fathers did not fear. 1

Nehemiah 9:33You are just in everything that has come on us, for you have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

Jeremiah 4:17They will be like the watchmen of a cultivated field against her all around, since she has been rebellious against me—this is Yahweh's declaration—

Jeremiah 5:29Should I not punish them for these things—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 and will I not take vengeance for myself on a nation like this? 1

Jeremiah 9:12What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? 1 Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass 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 →

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