Jer 44:17-18, 22, 27, Lam 5:2-6, Eze 4:16-17 | TSK | STEP | whatsoever. queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear, goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake. as we. our fathers. in the cities. then. victuals. Heb. bread.

‏ Jeremiah 44:17-18

whatsoever.

25; Nu 30:2,12; De 23:23; Jud 11:36; Ps 12:4; Mr 6:26

queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear, goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake.

7:18; 2Ki 17:16

as we.

19:13; 32:29-32; 2Ki 22:17; Ne 9:34; Da 9:6-8

our fathers.

Ne 9:34; Ps 106:6; Eze 20:8; Da 9:5,6,8; 1Pe 1:18

in the cities.

9,21

then.

Ex 16:3; Isa 48:5; Ho 2:5-9; Php 3:19

victuals. Heb. bread.

we have.

40:12; Nu 11:5,6; Job 21:14,15; Ps 73:9-15; Mal 3:13-15

‏ Jeremiah 44:22

could.

15:6; Ge 6:3,5-7; Ps 95:10,11; Isa 1:24; 7:13; 43:24; Eze 5:13

Am 2:13; Mal 2:17; Ro 2:4,5; 9:22; 2Pe 3:7-9

your land.

2,6,12; 18:16; 24:9; 25:11,18,38; 26:6; 29:19; 1Ki 9:7,8; La 2:15,16

Da 9:12

‏ Jeremiah 44:27

will watch.

1:10; 21:10; 31:28; Eze 7:6

shall be.

12,18; 2Ki 21:14

‏ Lamentations 5:2-6

De 28:30-68; Ps 79:1,2; Isa 1:7; 5:17; 63:18; Jer 6:12; Eze 7:21,24

Zep 1:13

Ex 22:24; Jer 18:21; Ho 14:3

have.

De 28:48; Isa 3:1; Eze 4:9-17

is sold. Heb. cometh for price.

Our necks are under persecution. Heb. On our necks are wepersecuted.

1:14; 4:19; De 28:48,65,66; Jer 27:2,8,11,12; 28:14; Mt 11:29

Ac 15:10

labour.

Ne 9:36,37

given.

Ge 24:2; 2Ki 10:15; Jer 50:15; Eze 17:18

to the Egyptians.

Isa 30:1-6; 31:1-3; 57:9; Jer 2:18,36; 44:12-14; Ho 5:13; 7:11; 9:3

Ho 12:1

‏ Ezekiel 4:16-17

I will.

5:16; 14:13; Le 26:26; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1

eat.The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure.

10,11; 12:18,19; Ps 60:3; La 1:11; 4:9,10; 5:9

and consume.

24:23; Le 26:39