Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
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Study Note
The community in Egypt defiantly declares they will not obey the Lord's word spoken through Jeremiah — a final act of covenant rejection following decades of prophetic warning. This response represents one of Scripture's starkest examples of hardened disobedience: not ignorance or confusion, but deliberate refusal ('we will not hearken unto thee'). The context is striking — having just survived the fall of Jerusalem, this remnant attributes their troubles to having stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven (44:17-18), inverting prophetic causality entirely. The episode illustrates the prophetic paradox: the more clearly God's word is spoken, the more sharply it divides between those who receive and those who harden.
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As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee.
`The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah--we are not hearkening unto thee;
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
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