Jeremiah 44:20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:

New American Standard Bible
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women-- even to all the people who were giving him such an answer-- saying,

King James Bible
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,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But Jeremiah responded to all the people--the men, women, and all the people who were answering him:

International Standard Version
Then Jeremiah spoke a message to all the people, to the young men, to the women, and to all the people who were answering him:

American Standard Version
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,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:

Darby Bible Translation
And Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jeremiah saith unto all the people, concerning the men and concerning the women, and concerning all the people who are answering him, saying:

Cross References

Jeremiah 44:19
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?

Jeremiah 44:21
The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

44:20-30 Whatever evil comes upon us, it is because we have sinned against the Lord; we should therefore stand in awe, and sin not. Since they were determined to persist in their idolatry, God would go on to punish them. What little remains of religion were among them, would be lost. The creature-comforts and confidences from which we promise ourselves most, may fail as soon as those from which we promise ourselves least; and all are what God makes them, not what we fancy them to be. Well-grounded hopes of our having a part in the Divine mercy, are always united with repentance and obedience.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. make … cakes to worship her—Maurer translates, "to form her image." Crescent-shaped cakes were offered to the moon. Vulgate supports English Version.

without our men—The women mentioned (Jer 44:15); "a great multitude" here speak: we have not engaged in secret night orgies which might justly be regarded unfavorably by our husbands: our sacred rites have been open, and with their privity. They wish to show how unreasonable it is that Jeremiah should oppose himself alone to the act of all, not merely women, but men also. The guilty, like these women, desire to shield themselves under the complicity of others. Instead of helping one another towards heaven, husband and wife often ripen one another for hell.