Jeremiah 7:18
18The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, aand the women knead dough, to bmake cakes for cthe queen of heaven. And dthey pour out drink offerings to other gods, eto provoke me to anger.Jeremiah 19:13
13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah— fall the houses on whose groofs offerings have been offered hto all the host of heaven, and idrink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled jlike the place of Topheth.’”Jeremiah 44:17-19
17 kBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to lthe queen of heaven mand pour out drink offerings to her, nas 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. 18But since we left off making offerings to othe queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything pand have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” 19And the women said, ▼▼Compare Syriac; Hebrew lacks And the women said
“When we made offerings to the queen of heaven rand poured out drink offerings to her, was it swithout our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?” Jeremiah 44:25
25Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: tYou and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, uto make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!
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