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So It is evident from verse 28, that some Jews were to escape the general destruction in Egypt, and to return into their own country, though but a few; and the same thing is implied in the latter clause of this verse. But the former part excludes from the number of those who should escape every individual of those who are properly termed "the remnant of Judah;" those who had willingly and rebelliously "set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there," on a presumption that they knew better than God how to consult their own restoration. The few, then, who were destined to escape, were to be such as had come into the land of Egypt with Johanan by compulsion, or had previously fled thither, or in some other less offensive manner, and chanced to be there when the storm burst upon them.

which are Isa 30:1-3

shall escape Jer 44:27, Jer 42:17; Matt 23:33; Rom 2:3; Heb 2:3

which they Jer 22:26-27, Jer 42:22

have a desire Heb. lift up there soul

for none Jer 44:28; Isa 4:2, Isa 10:20; Rom 9:27, Rom 11:5-6

all the Jer 5:1-5; Gen 19:4; Neh 13:26; Prov 11:21; Isa 1:5; Matt 7:13; 2Pet 2:1-2

we Jer 16:15-17, Jer 8:6, Jer 8:12, Jer 18:18, Jer 38:4; Exod 5:2; Job 15:25-27, Job 21:14-15; Ps 2:3, Ps 73:8-9; Isa 3:9; Dan 3:15; Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27

whatsoever Jer 44:25; Num 30:2, Num 30:12; Deut 23:23; Judg 11:36; Ps 12:4; Mark 6:26

queen of heaven or, frame of heaven. As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of baal shamayim "Lord of heaven," but also by that of Molech or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as melecheth hashshamayim "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins Κλυθι θεα ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑ, "Hear, goddess Queen." And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, Χαιρε, ανασσα, θεα "All hail, Queen, goddess." In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek κολλυρις, a cake. Jer 7:18; 2Kgs 17:16

as we Jer 19:13, Jer 32:29-32; 2Kgs 22:17; Neh 9:34; Dan 9:6-8

our fathers Neh 9:34; Ps 106:6; Ezek 20:8; Dan 9:5-6, Dan 9:8; 1Pet 1:18

in the cities Jer 44:9, Jer 44:21

then Exod 16:3; Isa 48:5; Hos 2:5-9; Phil 3:19

victuals Heb. bread