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Jeremiah 44:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah presses the question “The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and…” at Jeremiah 44:21 within “Jeremiah Reverses Their Reading of Prosperity.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 44:20–28
Read Jeremiah 44:21 with 44:20–28. By itself, “The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Jeremiah says the offerings helped bring ruin, declares the divine name withdrawn from their oaths, and predicts that only a few will return.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Jeremiah 44:20–28. The prophetic word through Jeremiah presses the question “The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and…” at Jeremiah 44:21 within “Jeremiah Reverses Their Reading of Prosperity.” The literary form and this limit govern it: The dispute does not support religious violence, silencing women, or simplistic claims that prosperity or disaster proves which worship is true.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Jeremiah 44:20–28 — Jeremiah Reverses Their Reading of ProsperitySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 44:20–28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 44:20–28
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