Jeremiah 44


Jeremiah 44 is the forty-fourth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter is part of a narrative section consisting of chapters 37 to the present one. Chapters 42-44 describe the emigration to Egypt involving the remnant who remained in Judah after much of the population was exiled to Babylon. The Jerusalem Bible describes this chapter as "the last episode of Jeremiah's ministry".

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 30 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some ancient manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 2QJer, with extant verses 1‑3, 12‑14.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 44 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy " in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in the Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition.
Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs' LXX
44:1-3051:1-30
37:1-2144:1-21

Verse 1

This is Jeremiah's final message to the Judeans living in various places in Egypt. Pathros refers to Upper Egypt; Noph is the same as Memphis, in Lower Egypt. Tahpanhes was the border point first reach by the migrant community coming from occupied Judah, and therefore the Jerusalem Bible suggests that this introduction to Jeremiah's final prophecy "represents discourse as addressed to the whole Jewish diaspora in Egypt".

Verse 30

The same way Yahweh handed Zedekiah over to Nebuchadnezzar II, Pharaoh Hophra would be handed over to his enemies. Hophra is the fourth king of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, ruling 589-570 BCE. His name is written as Ουαφρη, Ouaphre in the Greek Old Testament, Ἁπρίης Apries by Herodotus and Diodorus, or Waphres by Manetho, who correctly records that he reigned for 19 years. He forged an alliance with Zedekiah to rebel against Babylon, sending an army in the summer of 588 BC, but that action failed to prevent the fall of Jerusalem in July 587 BCE. In 570 BC Hophra was forced to rule together as co-regents with Amasis, but three years later Hophra was overthrown and executed, while Amasis continued to be a sole ruler until his death in 526 BCE.

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