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Jeremiah 44:20

in Jeremiah 44

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,

KJV

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,

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This verse in Jeremiah 44

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people,.... Immediately, being influenced, directed, and assisted by the Spirit of God; though what he says, in Jer 44:21; he does not declare as coming from the Lord; but what was upon his mind, and was a full refutation of all that had been said: and which he delivered to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer; in which they all agreed, though delivered by one; and to which he made a reply: saying; as follows:

This site's exposition

Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women

on Jeremiah 44:20-23

Jeremiah's answer reverses their causality rather than arguing their facts: did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his mind, the very incense they credit with plenty is named as the provocation itself. Verse 22 states that the Lord could no longer bear it, so the desolation they have lived through is the direct consequence of the sin, not its disproof. The bench reads this as meeting their empirical case, that things went well while they served the queen of heaven, with a theological one, that delayed judgment is not the same as innocence proven.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֖הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֑םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַגְּבָרִ֤יםthe men

    hagevarimH1397 →65 times

  • וְעַל־and to

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַנָּשִׁים֙the women

    hanashimH802 →781 times

  • וְעַל־and to

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הָעֹנִ֥יםwho had answered

    haonimH6030 →331 times

  • אֹת֛וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • דָּבָ֖רa word

    davarH1697 →1440 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 44 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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