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Jeremiah 44:4
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the exiled Judeans who provoked His anger by burning incense to foreign gods. He confronts them with His prior, persistent attempts to stop their idolatry.
The words — הַשְׁכֵּ֥ים (hash.Keim) = rising early (repeatedly) and וְ/שָׁלֹ֖חַ (ve./sha.Lo.ach) = and/sending. These terms frame the verse’s declaration of ongoing prophetic dispatch.
The thread — The repeated sending of prophets appears in Jeremiah 26:5 and Jeremiah 7:25. Jeremiah 7:13 parallels the pattern but records God speaking and calling repeatedly rather than sending prophets.
Why it lands — The text states God’s prior warnings through prophetsI have to stop the idolatry. The passage demands recognition that divine patience preceded judgment, requiring the reader to acknowledge the futility of ignoring repeated divine instruction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 26:5 and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
- Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
- Jeremiah 7:25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15 Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
- Jeremiah 16:18 And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
- Jeremiah 29:19 I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 16:47 And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
- Zechariah 7:7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
- Jeremiah 25:3 “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.