Jeremiah 44:19 Cross References - NSB

¹⁹ »The women added: ‘When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing.’«

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

¹¹ And he said: »Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?« ¹² Adam said: »The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.«

¹⁶ He said to the woman: »I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.« ¹⁷ He said to Adam: »Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

⁶ »If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries, ⁷ she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.

³ »Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. ⁴ »They will lead your young people away from me to serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.

²⁵ No one else devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in Jehovah’s sight as Ahab all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.

⁶ He followed the wicked example of King Ahab and the other kings of Israel. He married one of Ahab’s daughters. He sinned against Jehovah.

²¹ Hand in hand united, the wicked shall not be unpunished; but the descendants of the righteous will be delivered.

¹⁸ »The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.

¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives offered sacrifices to other gods, and all the women who were standing there, including the Israelites who lived in southern Egypt, a large crowd in all said to me:

¹⁹ Herodias had a grudge against John and was determined to have him killed. ²⁰ But Herod feared John. He knew he was a righteous and holy man so he kept him safe. That is why he listened to John but was perplexed. ²¹ It was Herod’s birthday. He invited his lords, the military commanders, and the prominent men of Galilee to supper. ²² When the daughter of Herodias danced for Herod and his guests, she pleased him so much he promised her anything she desired. ²³ He pledged to her, »Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you, up to half of my kingdom.« ²⁴ She asked her mother, »What should I ask?« And the mother said: »The head of John the Baptist.« ²⁵ At once she went to the king and asked: »Will you give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter.« ²⁶ The king was very sorry. Even so he kept his promise to her. He did not turn her down. This also showed his dinner guests he was a man of his word. ²⁷ He immediately commanded his guard to behead John the Baptist and bring his head to him.