Jeremiah 44:3
because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods, that they did not know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
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Deuteronomy 29:25Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not God,to gods that they did not know,to new gods that came up recently,which your fathers did not dread.
Nehemiah 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
Jeremiah 4:17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:29"Shall I not punish for these things?" says the Lord. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:12"Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes 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 →