Jeremiah 44:19
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And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

we burned

Jeremiah 44:15 Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremiah, saying:

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.

without

Genesis 3:6,11,12,16,17 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat. . . .

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: . . .

1 Kings 21:25 Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife, Jezabel, set him on,

2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Proverbs 11:21 A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Mark 6:19-27 Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death and could not. . . .

men.

Context
The Stubbornness of the People
18But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out frank offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine. 19And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
Cross References
Numbers 30:6
If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,

Numbers 30:7
The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.

Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 44:15
Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremiah, saying:

Jeremiah 44:20
And Jeremiah spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:

Lexicon
“Moreover,” [said the women,] “when
וְכִֽי־ (wə·ḵî-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

we
אֲנַ֤חְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 587: We

burned incense
מְקַטְּרִים֙ (mə·qaṭ·ṭə·rîm)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6999: To smoke, turn into fragrance by fire

to the queen
לִמְלֶ֣כֶת (lim·le·ḵeṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4446: A queen

of heaven
הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם (haš·šā·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8064: Heaven, sky

and poured out
וּלְהַסֵּ֥ךְ (ū·lə·has·sêḵ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5258: To pour out, a libation, to cast, to anoint a, king

drink offerings to her,
נְסָכִ֑ים (nə·sā·ḵîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5262: A libation, a cast idol

was it without
הֲמִֽבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י (hă·mib·bal·‘ă·ḏê)
Preposition | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 1107: Apart from, except, without

our husbands’ {knowledge}
אֲנָשֵׁ֗ינוּ (’ă·nā·šê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 582: Man, mankind

that we made
עָשִׂ֨ינוּ (‘ā·śî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

sacrificial cakes
כַּוָּנִים֙ (kaw·wā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3561: Something prepared, a sacrificial wafer

in her image
לְהַ֣עֲצִבָ֔ה (lə·ha·‘ă·ṣi·ḇāh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6087: To carve, fabricate, fashion, to worry, pain, anger

and poured out
וְהַסֵּ֥ךְ (wə·has·sêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 5258: To pour out, a libation, to cast, to anoint a, king

drink offerings to her?”
נְסָכִֽים׃ (nə·sā·ḵîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5262: A libation, a cast idol


Additional Translations
“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our men?

And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands?

And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?

And when we burned incense to the queen of the heavens and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to portray her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?

And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our husbands?

And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our men?

When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

and when we are making perfume to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her libations -- without our husbands have we made for her cakes to idolize her, and to pour out to her libations?'
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