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Jeremiah 44:15

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Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, all the women who were standing there, and all the people who lived at Pathros in Egypt answered Jeremiah. They said,

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Before they had gone to bed, all the young and old male citizens of Sodom surrounded the house.

I said, “Wasn’t it because of marriages like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? There wasn’t a king like him among all nations. God loved him, and God made him king of all Israel. But his non-Israelite wives led him to sin.

Certainly, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the descendants of righteous people will escape.

“Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is failing.

That is why I revealed to you what would happen long ago. I told you about them before they happened. ⌞I did this⌟ so you couldn’t say, “My gods have done these things. My carved idols and my metal idols have commanded them to happen.”

The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah about all the Jews living in Egypt at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Noph, and Pathros.

The women added, “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven, poured out wine offerings to her, and made cakes for her with her image on them, do you think our husbands didn’t approve?”

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including the women, “Listen to the Lord’s word, all you people of Judah who are in Egypt.

I will bring back the Egyptian captives and return them to Pathros, the land they came from. There they will be a weak kingdom.

I will destroy Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and bring punishment on Thebes.

“Enter through the narrow gate because the gate and road that lead to destruction are wide. Many enter through the wide gate.

They may be the gods of the people around you, who live near or far, from one end of the land to the other.)




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