The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 44:19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This part of the reply belongs to the women, who declare that, their husbands' consent having been given to their vow, Jeremiah has no right to interfere (see Numbers 30:6, Numbers 30:7). Burned …poured, etc.

; rather, burn, pour. Did we, etc.; rather, do we, etc. To worship her. The sense of the Hebrew is doubtful; but the best reading seems that of Rashi, Graf, and Dr. Payne Smith, "to make her image." Without our men; rather, without our husbands.

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