Jeremiah 44:18 References

18 "But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have alacked everything and have met our end by the sword and by famine."

a Numbers 11:5, Numbers 11:6, Jeremiah 40:12, Malachi 3:13-15

Numbers 11

5 "aWe remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,

Numbers 11

6 but now aour appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna."

Jeremiah 40

12 Then all the Jews areturned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

Malachi 3

13 "Your words have been arrogant against Me," says the Lord. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?'

14 "You have said, 'It is avain to serve God; and what bprofit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

15 'So now we acall the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and bescape.'"