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Jeremiah Chapter 44

Jeremiah
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Jeremiah

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In Jeremiah 44 the prophet declares that God will free the Israelites from their captivity and release the captives, women, and men who have been taken into bondage. The chapter emphasizes God’s promise of restoration and the removal of oppression. It also highlights the importance of obeying God’s command to release the prisoners.

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(1) The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
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Jeremiah 42:15Jeremiah 42:16Jeremiah 42:17Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 43:5Jeremiah 43:6Jeremiah 43:7Jeremiah 46:14Exodus 14:2Ezekiel 29:10Ezekiel 30:18Jeremiah 2:16

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Nehemiah 1:2Jeremiah 46:14Esther 8:17John 19:21

(2) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
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Jeremiah 39:1Jeremiah 39:2Jeremiah 39:3Jeremiah 39:4Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 39:7Jeremiah 39:8Exodus 19:4Deuteronomy 29:2Joshua 23:3Zechariah 1:6

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Zechariah 14:21Revelation 10:6Zechariah 1:3

(3) Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
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Jeremiah 2:17Jeremiah 2:18Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 4:17Jeremiah 4:18Jeremiah 5:19Jeremiah 5:29Jeremiah 9:12Jeremiah 9:13Jeremiah 9:14Jeremiah 11:17Jeremiah 16:11

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Jeremiah 44:9Joshua 24:15Judges 10:6Jeremiah 32:29II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 28:25

(4) Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
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Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 7:25Jeremiah 25:3Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 29:19Jeremiah 32:33Jeremiah 35:17II Chronicles 36:15Zechariah 7:7Jeremiah 16:18Ezekiel 8:10

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Jeremiah 7:25Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 29:19Jeremiah 35:15

(5) But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
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Jeremiah 7:24II Chronicles 36:16Psalms 81:11Psalms 81:12Psalms 81:13Isaiah 48:4Isaiah 48:18Zechariah 7:11Zechariah 7:12Revelation 2:21Revelation 2:22Jeremiah 44:17

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Judges 10:6Jeremiah 44:9Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 44:3Exodus 30:7II Chronicles 26:18

(6) Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
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Jeremiah 4:4Jeremiah 7:20Jeremiah 21:5Jeremiah 21:12Jeremiah 36:7Jeremiah 42:18Leviticus 26:28Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 51:20Ezekiel 5:13Ezekiel 6:12Ezekiel 8:18

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Jeremiah 42:18Lamentations 4:11Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 42:25Jeremiah 7:20Ezekiel 5:13

(7) Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
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Jeremiah 7:19Jeremiah 25:7Jeremiah 42:20Numbers 16:38Proverbs 1:18Proverbs 5:22Proverbs 8:36Proverbs 15:32Ezekiel 33:11Habakkuk 2:10Jeremiah 44:8Jeremiah 44:11

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34Leviticus 18:29Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:20

(8) In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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Jeremiah 25:6Jeremiah 25:7Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17II Kings 17:15II Kings 17:16II Kings 17:17Isaiah 3:8I Corinthians 10:21I Corinthians 10:22Hebrews 3:16Jeremiah 44:7

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Judges 10:6II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 34:25II Chronicles 25:14Psalms 86:8Jeremiah 1:16

(9) Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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Joshua 22:17Joshua 22:18Joshua 22:19Joshua 22:20Ezra 9:7Ezra 9:8Ezra 9:9Ezra 9:10Ezra 9:11Ezra 9:12Ezra 9:13Ezra 9:14

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Leviticus 20:14I Kings 2:44Ezekiel 33:12Hosea 9:15Jeremiah 14:16I Kings 8:47

(10) They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
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Jeremiah 8:12Exodus 9:17Exodus 10:3I Kings 21:29II Chronicles 12:6II Chronicles 12:7II Chronicles 12:8II Chronicles 12:9II Chronicles 12:10II Chronicles 12:11II Chronicles 12:12II Chronicles 32:26

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Ezekiel 5:6

(11) Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
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Jeremiah 21:10Leviticus 17:10Leviticus 20:5Leviticus 20:6Leviticus 26:17Psalms 34:16Ezekiel 14:7Ezekiel 14:8Ezekiel 15:7Amos 9:4

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Zechariah 1:3

(12) And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
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Jeremiah 42:15Jeremiah 42:16Jeremiah 42:17Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 42:22Hosea 4:6Jeremiah 44:8Jeremiah 29:22Isaiah 65:15

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II Kings 7:4Ezekiel 5:12Jeremiah 14:15Jeremiah 16:4Jeremiah 42:17Ezekiel 6:12

(13) For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
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Jeremiah 44:27Jeremiah 44:28Jeremiah 11:22Jeremiah 21:9Jeremiah 24:10Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 43:11

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Ezekiel 7:15Jeremiah 27:8

(14) So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
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Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:3Jeremiah 44:27Jeremiah 42:17Matthew 23:33Romans 2:3Hebrews 2:3Jeremiah 22:26Jeremiah 22:27Jeremiah 42:22Jeremiah 44:28

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7Jeremiah 22:27Jeremiah 44:28

(15) Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
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Jeremiah 5:1Jeremiah 5:2Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 5:4Jeremiah 5:5Genesis 19:4Nehemiah 13:26Proverbs 11:21Isaiah 1:5Matthew 7:13II Peter 2:1II Peter 2:2

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Judges 10:6II Chronicles 25:14I Kings 11:8II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 34:25Jeremiah 1:16

(16) As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
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Jeremiah 16:15Jeremiah 16:16Jeremiah 16:17Jeremiah 8:6Jeremiah 8:12Jeremiah 18:18Jeremiah 38:4Exodus 5:2Job 15:25Job 15:26Job 15:27Job 21:14

(17) 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.
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Jeremiah 44:25Numbers 30:2Numbers 30:12Deuteronomy 23:23Judges 11:36Psalms 12:4Mark 6:26Jeremiah 7:18II Kings 17:16Jeremiah 19:13Jeremiah 32:29Jeremiah 32:30

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Philippians 4:8I Kings 8:64Leviticus 11:42Numbers 29:39Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:19

(18) But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
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Jeremiah 40:12Numbers 11:5Numbers 11:6Job 21:14Job 21:15Psalms 73:9Psalms 73:10Psalms 73:11Psalms 73:12Psalms 73:13Psalms 73:14Psalms 73:15

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:19Jeremiah 44:25II Chronicles 7:7

(19) 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 men?
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Jeremiah 44:15Jeremiah 7:18Genesis 3:6Genesis 3:11Genesis 3:12Genesis 3:16Genesis 3:17Deuteronomy 7:3Deuteronomy 7:4I Kings 21:25II Chronicles 21:6Proverbs 11:21

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Deuteronomy 12:6II Chronicles 29:31

(20) 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,
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Jeremiah 38:6

(21) The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, 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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Jeremiah 44:9Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 11:13Ezekiel 16:24Jeremiah 14:10I Samuel 15:3I Kings 17:18Psalms 79:8Isaiah 64:9Ezekiel 21:23Ezekiel 21:24Hosea 7:2

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Leviticus 26:42Psalms 68:27Jeremiah 44:17II Kings 23:5

(22) So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
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Jeremiah 15:6Genesis 6:3Genesis 6:5Genesis 6:6Genesis 6:7Psalms 95:10Psalms 95:11Isaiah 1:24Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 43:24Ezekiel 5:13Amos 2:13

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II Samuel 18:20Ezekiel 16:52Ezekiel 44:13Jeremiah 25:18Ezekiel 16:51

(23) Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
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Jeremiah 44:8Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:21Jeremiah 32:31Jeremiah 32:32Jeremiah 32:33II Chronicles 36:16Lamentations 1:8I Corinthians 10:20II Corinthians 6:16Psalms 119:150Psalms 119:155

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Ezekiel 5:6II Kings 23:5

(24) Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
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Jeremiah 44:16Jeremiah 42:15I Kings 22:19Isaiah 1:10Isaiah 28:14Ezekiel 2:7Amos 7:16Matthew 11:15Jeremiah 44:15Jeremiah 44:26Jeremiah 43:7Ezekiel 20:32

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Jeremiah 38:6

(25) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
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Jeremiah 44:15Jeremiah 44:16Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:19Isaiah 28:15Jude 1:13Matthew 14:9Acts 23:12Acts 23:13Acts 23:14Acts 23:15

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Numbers 29:39Psalms 39:6Jeremiah 49:20Jeremiah 50:45Micah 2:12Deuteronomy 12:6

(26) Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
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Jeremiah 46:18Genesis 22:16Numbers 14:21Numbers 14:22Numbers 14:23Numbers 14:28Deuteronomy 32:40Deuteronomy 32:41Deuteronomy 32:42Psalms 89:34Isaiah 62:8Amos 6:8

(27) Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
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Jeremiah 1:10Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 31:28Ezekiel 7:6Jeremiah 44:12Jeremiah 44:18II Kings 21:14

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Jeremiah 44:12Jeremiah 14:15

(28) Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
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Jeremiah 44:14Isaiah 10:19Isaiah 10:22Isaiah 27:12Isaiah 27:13Jeremiah 44:16Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:25Jeremiah 44:26Jeremiah 44:29Numbers 14:28Numbers 14:29

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Jeremiah 44:14Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Numbers 18:9I Samuel 12:3II Kings 8:1

(29) And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
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Jeremiah 44:30I Samuel 2:34Matthew 24:15Matthew 24:16Matthew 24:32Matthew 24:33Matthew 24:34Mark 13:14Mark 13:15Mark 13:16Luke 21:20Luke 21:21

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Jeremiah 44:25Matthew 12:39Matthew 16:4Luke 11:29

(30) Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
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Jeremiah 43:9Jeremiah 43:10Jeremiah 43:11Jeremiah 43:12Jeremiah 43:13Jeremiah 46:13Jeremiah 46:14Jeremiah 46:15Jeremiah 46:16Jeremiah 46:17Jeremiah 46:18Jeremiah 46:19

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Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 20:4Jeremiah 34:21Jeremiah 22:25Jeremiah 46:26Zephaniah 2:3

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