Jeremiah 44 (NET)

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Jeremiah 44:1¹The Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, those in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the region of southern Egypt:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:14 Exod 14:2 Isa 11:11 Isa 19:13 Ezek 29:14 Ezek 30:14 Ezek 30:16 Ezek 30:18 Jer 2:16 Jer 46:19

Jeremiah 44:2²“The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 6:11 Jer 34:22 Jer 9:11 Jer 4:7 Mic 3:12 2 Kgs 21:13 Deut 29:2 Exod 19:4 Isa 24:12 Isa 64:10-11

Jeremiah 44:3³This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. They made me angry by worshiping and offering sacrifices to other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors previously knew.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 29:26 Deut 13:6 Deut 32:17 Dan 9:5 Ezek 8:17-18 Jer 2:17-19 Jer 44:8 Neh 9:33 Ezek 22:25-31 Ezek 9:9

Jeremiah 44:4⁴I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 26:5 Jer 7:13 Jer 7:25 2 Chr 36:15 Ezek 16:47 Ezek 8:10 Jer 16:18 Jer 29:19 Zech 7:7 1 Pet 4:3

Jeremiah 44:5⁵But the people of Jerusalem and Judah would not listen or pay any attention. They would not stop the wickedness they were doing nor quit sacrificing to other gods.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 11:10 Jer 19:13 2 Chr 36:16 Isa 48:18 Isa 48:4 Jer 11:8 Jer 44:17-21 Jer 7:24 Ps 81:11-13 Rev 2:21-22

Jeremiah 44:6⁶So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:20 Ezek 8:18 Isa 51:17 Isa 51:20 Isa 6:11 Jer 21:5 Jer 42:18 Jer 7:34 Dan 9:12 Ezek 20:33

Jeremiah 44:7⁷“So now the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks, ‘Why will you do such great harm to yourselves? Why should every man, woman, child, and baby of yours be destroyed from the midst of Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:10 Jer 51:22 Ezek 33:11 Num 16:38 1 Sam 15:3 Deut 32:25 Jer 44:14 Jer 7:19 Jer 9:21 Josh 6:21

Jeremiah 44:8⁸That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 42:18 Jer 25:6-7 Jer 44:3 1 Cor 10:21-22 1 Kgs 9:7-8 2 Chr 7:20 2 Kgs 17:15-17 Jer 18:16 Deut 32:16-17 Ezek 18:31-32

Jeremiah 44:9⁹Have you forgotten all the wicked things that have been done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their wives, and by you and your wives?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:17-18 Dan 9:5-8 Ezra 9:7-15 Jer 44:15-19 Jer 44:21 Josh 22:17-20

Jeremiah 44:10¹⁰To this day your people have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded you and your ancestors.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 28:14 1 Pet 5:6 Jer 8:12 Rev 15:4 1 Kgs 21:29 2 Chr 12:6-12 2 Chr 32:26 2 Chr 33:12 2 Chr 33:19 2 Chr 34:27

Jeremiah 44:11¹¹“Because of this, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 21:10 Amos 9:4 Lev 17:10 Lev 20:5-6 Lev 26:17 Ps 34:16 Ezek 14:7-8 Ezek 15:7

Jeremiah 44:12¹²I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 42:15-18 Jer 42:22 Isa 65:15 Hos 4:6 Isa 1:28 Jer 18:16 Jer 29:18 Jer 29:22 Jer 44:7-8

Jeremiah 44:13¹³I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease, just as I punished Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 11:22 Jer 43:11 Jer 44:27-28 Jer 21:9 Jer 24:10 Jer 42:18

Jeremiah 44:14¹⁴None of the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah. Though they long to return and live there, none of them shall return except a few fugitives.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 22:26-27 Rom 9:27 Isa 10:20 Isa 4:2 Jer 42:17 Jer 44:27-28 Heb 2:3 Isa 30:1-3 Jer 42:22 Matt 23:33

Jeremiah 44:15¹⁵Then all the men who were aware that their wives were sacrificing to other gods, as well as all their wives, answered Jeremiah—there was a great crowd of them representing all the people who lived in northern and southern Egypt —Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:1-5 Prov 11:21 2 Pet 2:1-2 Gen 19:4 Matt 7:13 Neh 13:26 Isa 1:5

Jeremiah 44:16¹⁶“We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 19:27 Job 21:14-15 Dan 3:15 Exod 5:2 Isa 3:9 Jer 11:10 Jer 11:8 Jer 16:15-17 Jer 18:18 Jer 38:4

Jeremiah 44:17¹⁷Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well off, and had no troubles.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:18 Neh 9:34 2 Kgs 17:16 Deut 23:23 Exod 16:3 Ezek 20:8 Hos 2:5-9 Jer 44:21 Jer 44:25 Phil 3:19

Jeremiah 44:18¹⁸But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mal 3:13-15 Num 11:5-6 Jer 40:12 Job 21:14-15 Ps 73:9-15

Jeremiah 44:19¹⁹The women added, “We did indeed sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. But it was with the full knowledge and approval of our husbands that we made cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:18 Jer 44:15 1 Kgs 21:25 2 Chr 21:6 Deut 7:3-4 Gen 3:11-12 Gen 3:16-17 Gen 3:6 Num 30:6-7 Mark 6:19-27

Jeremiah 44:20²⁰Then Jeremiah replied to all the people, both men and women, who responded to him in this way:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 44:21²¹“The Lord did indeed remember and call to mind what you did! He remembered the incense you and your ancestors, your kings, your leaders, and all the rest of the people of the land offered to other gods in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 44:17 Isa 64:9 Jer 11:13 Jer 14:10 Jer 44:9 Ps 79:8 Amos 8:7 Hos 7:2 1 Kgs 17:18 1 Sam 15:3

Jeremiah 44:22²²Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 25:18 Isa 43:24 Isa 7:13 Jer 18:16 Jer 25:11 Jer 25:38 Jer 44:12 Mal 2:17 1 Kgs 9:7-8 2 Pet 3:7-9

Jeremiah 44:23²³You have sacrificed to other gods. You have sinned against the Lord! You have not obeyed the Lord! You have not followed his laws, his statutes, and his decrees. That is why this disaster that is evident to this day has happened to you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:9 Dan 9:11-12 Neh 13:18 Ps 119:150 1 Cor 10:20 2 Chr 36:16 2 Cor 6:16 Jer 32:31-33 Jer 40:3 Jer 44:18

Jeremiah 44:24²⁴Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people, particularly to all the women, “Listen to the Lord’ s message, all you people of Judah who are in Egypt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 43:7 Jer 42:15 Jer 44:15-16 Jer 44:26 1 Kgs 22:19 Amos 7:16 Ezek 2:7 Ezek 20:32-33 Isa 1:10 Isa 28:14

Jeremiah 44:25²⁵This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, has said, ‘You women have confirmed by your actions what you vowed with your lips! You said, “We will certainly carry out our vows to sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.” Well, then fulfill your vows! Carry them out!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 14:9 Acts 23:12-15 Ezek 20:39 Isa 28:15 Jas 1:14-15 Jer 44:15-19 Job 34:22 Jude 1:13

Jeremiah 44:26²⁶But listen to the Lord ’s message, all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: The Lord says, ‘I hereby swear by my own great name that none of the people of Judah who are living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name in their oaths! Never again will any of them use it in an oath saying, “As surely as the Sovereign Lord lives.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:39 Gen 22:16 Heb 6:13 Ps 50:16 Amos 6:8 Isa 48:1-2 Jer 4:2 Jer 5:2 Amos 6:10 Amos 8:7

Jeremiah 44:27²⁷I will indeed see to it that disaster, not prosperity, happens to them. All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:28 2 Kgs 21:14 Jer 1:10 Ezek 7:6 Jer 21:10 Jer 44:12 Jer 44:18

Jeremiah 44:28²⁸Some who survive the battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, mine or theirs.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 44:14 Isa 10:19 Isa 27:12-13 Jer 44:25-26 Isa 28:16-18 Isa 46:10-11 Jer 44:29 Lam 3:37-38 Ps 33:11 Zech 1:6

Jeremiah 44:29²⁹Moreover the Lord says, ‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 19:21 Matt 24:15-16 Isa 40:8 Jer 44:30 1 Sam 2:34 Luke 21:20-21 Luke 21:29-33 Mark 13:14-16 Matt 24:32-34

Jeremiah 44:30³⁰I, the Lord, promise that I will hand Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who was seeking to kill him.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:4-7 Ezek 30:21 Jer 34:21 Jer 39:5-7 Jer 43:9-13 Ezek 29:1-21 Ezek 31:18-32:32 Jer 52:8-11 Jer 46:13-26