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Jeremiah 44:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then all the men who had knowledge that their wives were burning perfumes to other gods, and all the women who were present, a great meeting, answering Jeremiah, said,

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But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.

The word which came to Jeremiah about all the Jews who were living in the land of Egypt, in Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros, saying,

And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?

Further, Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all those of Judah who are living in Egypt:

I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom.

And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.

Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;




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