Jeremiah 44:17
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Note queen…: or, frame of heaven
Note victuals: Heb. bread
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- whatsoever
- Jeremiah 44:25; Numbers 30:2, 12; Deuteronomy 23:23; Judges 11:36; Psalm 12:4; Mark 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.
- Jeremiah 7:18; 2 Kings 17:16
- as we
- Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29–32; 2 Kings 22:17; Nehemiah 9:34; Daniel 9:6–8
- our fathers
- Nehemiah 9:34; Psalm 106:6; Ezekiel 20:8; Daniel 9:5, 6, 8; 1 Peter 1:18
- in the cities
- Jeremiah 44:9, 21
- then
- Exodus 16:3; Isaiah 48:5; Hosea 2:5–9; Philippians 3:19