The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.Jeremiah 7:18 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThe children gather wood - Here is a description of a whole family gathered together, and acting unitedly in idolatrous worship.
1. The children go and collect wood, and bring it to the place of sacrifice.
2. The fathers lay it in order, and kindle a fire.
3. The mother and her maids knead dough, make their batch, and out of it form cakes, and bake them for the honor of the queen of heaven; most probably the moon, though perhaps not exclusive of the sun and planets, generally called the host of heaven.
Family worship is a most amiable and becoming thing when performed according to truth. What a pity that so few families show such zeal for the worship of God as those apostate Israelites did for that of their idols!
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Jeremiah 44:17-19,25 But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven...
1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
queen of heaven. or, frame, or workmanship of heaven. Though several MSS. and editions have Melachath, workmanship, instead of melecheth, queen yet the latter reading seems the true one, as the LXX, in the parallel place, and the Vulgate uniformly have the queen of heaven; by which there can be little doubt, is meant the moon.
Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven...
Job 31:26-28 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness...
to pour.
Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet...
Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses...
Deuteronomy 32:37,38 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted...
Psalm 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer...
Isaiah 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering...
Isaiah 65:11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop...
Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill...
that they.
Jeremiah 25:7 Yet you have not listened to me, said the LORD; that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD...
Isaiah 65:3 A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense on altars of brick;
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