Jer 44:17, Zec 1:4-5, Gal 1:14, 1Pe 1:18 | ESV | STEP | But we will do everything that we have vowed , make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did , both we and our fathers , our kings and our officials , in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem . For then we had plenty of food , and prospered , and saw no disaster .

g[See ver. 3 above]

h ch. 7:11; 2 Chr. 36:16; See Jer. 35:15

k[Jer. 9:14; 2 Tim. 1:3]; See Matt. 15:2

l[Ps. 49:8; 130:8; 1 Cor. 6:20; Titus 2:14; 2 Pet. 2:1]

Jeremiah 44:17

17 ^aBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to ^bthe queen of heaven ^cand pour out drink offerings to her, ^das we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

Zechariah 1:4-5

4 ^eDo not be like your fathers, ^fto whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^gReturn from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But ^hthey did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And ⁱthe prophets, do they live forever?

Galatians 1:14

14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely ^jzealous was I for ^kthe traditions of my fathers.

1 Peter 1:18

18 knowing that you ^lwere ransomed from ^mthe futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,