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Jeremiah 44:3

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because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Jeremiah 44

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt

on Jeremiah 44:1-6

The word goes to the Jews in Egypt, from Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis in the north to Pathros in the south. “You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem.” The cause was incense burned to “other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger,.... The cause of this desolation was the wickedness they were guilty of; whereby they provoked the anger of God to bring this destruction on them.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They forsook the God who was known among them, and whose name was great, for gods that they knew not, upstart deities, whose original was obscure and not worth taking notice of: " Neither they nor you, nor your fathers, could give any rational account why the God of Israel was exchanged for such impostors." They knew not that they were gods; nay, they could not but know that they were no gods.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

In that they went to burn incense, and to serve - Or, by going to burn incense to serve thereby other gods.

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.

  • מִפְּנֵ֣י<from> because of

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • רָעָתָ֗םwickedness their

    raatamH7451 →662 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשׂוּ֙they did

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • לְהַכְעִסֵ֔נִיto provoke to anger me

    lehakhiseniH3707 →54 times

  • לָלֶ֣כֶתby going

    lalekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • לְקַטֵּ֔רto make smoke

    lekaterH6999 →116 times

  • לַעֲבֹ֖דto serve

    laavodH5647 →288 times

  • לֵאלֹהִ֣ים<to> gods

    lelohimH430 →2601 times

  • אֲחֵרִ֑יםother

    ʾacherimH312 →166 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יְדָע֔וּםthey had known them

    yedaumH3045 →945 times

  • הֵ֖מָּהthey

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • אַתֶּ֥םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • וַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃and ancestors your

    vaavoteikhemH1 →1212 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 29:26They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.5 worksJeremiah 44:8Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.5 worksDeuteronomy 13:6If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,4 worksDeuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.4 worksNehemiah 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.3 worksDaniel 9:5we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 2:17–19Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?3 worksEzekiel 8:17–18“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!3 worksJeremiah 22:9Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”2 worksJeremiah 4:17–18They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.2 worksLamentations 4:13But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.2 worksJeremiah 11:17The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”2 worksJeremiah 5:29Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?2 worksJeremiah 19:3–4saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,2 worksJeremiah 5:19And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”2 worksJeremiah 9:12–14Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?2 worksEzekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’2 worksJeremiah 16:11–12Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Daniel 9:5

    we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 106:6

      We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Malachi 3:7

      Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But…

    • Daniel 9:11

      All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out…

    • Daniel 9:15

      Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 13:6

    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 17:2–7

      If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His…

    • 1 John 2:26–27

      I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

    • Ephesians 4:14

      Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

    • 2 Peter 2:1

      Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…

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About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 44 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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