Introduction
The continuing hardness of God’s people ch. 44
This chapter records an incident late in Jeremiah’s ministry, though how much later than chapter 43 is unknown. Many commentators suppose it dates from about 580 B.C., because it would have taken some time for the Judean refugees to spread throughout Egypt, as this chapter pictures them. This chapter contains the prophet’s last known words. The prophecies in the succeeding chapters date from earlier times.
Jeremiah announced Yahweh’s judgment on the idolatrous Jews in Egypt (Jeremiah 44:1-14). Israel’s future lay with the Jews in exile in Babylon, not with those who had fled to Egypt for safety, or with the small remnant left in Canaan.
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