Jer 44:1

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Jer 44:1 Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry.

Jer 44:11 He prophesies their destruction, who commit idolatry in Egypt.

Jer 44:15 The obstinacy of the Jews;

Jer 44:20 for which Jeremiah threatens them;

Jer 44:29 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt.

Cir. A.M. 3433. B.C. 571. The word.

Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem. concerning.

Jer 42:15-18; Jer 43:5-7

Migdol.

Jer 46:14; Exod 14:2; Ezek 29:10

Tahpanhes.

{Tahpanhes,} rendered [Taphne] and [Taphnai] by the LXX., is no doubt the [Daphnai] of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphn�Pelusic� Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name.

It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives.

It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship.

Jer 43:7; Ezek 30:18

Tehaphnehes. Noph.

Jer 2:16; Jer 46:14; Jer 46:19; Isa 19:13; Ezek 30:16

Pathros.

Ge 10:14

Pathrusim.

Isa 11:11; Ezek 29:14; Ezek 30:14