...to complain: But since we let off to offer to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.80 72 1 Kings 22:41-50, 2 Kings 3; 2 Chron. 17-20. 732 Kings 18-20, 2 Chron. 29-31. 742 Kings...

...children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger (Jeremiah 7:18). Together with this celebration was the...

...the Queen of Heaven" (Jer. 7:18). Apparently in that day the Israelites in general were accustomed to burn incense to the "Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities...

...thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done . . . for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well and saw no evil. But since...

...and had fulfilled it with their hands, that they would surely perform the vows which they had vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her. Therefore, Jehovah said to all Judah who dwelt in the land of Egypt that He was watching...

...is inappropriate in the verses. Thus verse 17 continues: "out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the...

.... But we will eertainly do whatsoever thing goeth lorth out ot our own mouth, to burn intense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we. and our fathers, our kings, and our princes. . . . But since we have left off...

...offerings to the Queen of Heaven they were happy and prosperous but since they had ceased such worship, "we have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine."29 In his exile in Babylon Ezekiel also lamented his former days in Jerusalem saying that "then...

...to what he had said "in the name of the Lord" (Jer. 44:16), but would continue to "burn incense unto the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the...

...thee: But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouths, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the...