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Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 44

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This is a parallel-text biblical presentation of Jeremiah 44 (chapter 37 in the Septuagint's different numbering), displaying three versions simultaneously: the King James Version with embedded Strong's concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint, and the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh). The passage records the prophet Jeremiah's confrontation with Jewish exiles living in Egypt after Jerusalem's fall, condemning them for continuing to burn incense to the "Queen of Heaven" and other foreign deities despite God's prior judgments on Judah. In a striking counter-argument, the people openly defy Jeremiah, insisting they will maintain the Queen of Heaven cult because they prospered under it and have suffered only since abandoning it — one of the Bible's most direct popular rejections of prophetic authority. Jeremiah responds by predicting the complete destruction of the Egyptian diaspora by sword and famine, with only a tiny remnant surviving, and offers the fall of Pharaoh Hophra to his enemies as a confirmatory sign. The multi-version format serves scholars and serious students comparing textual traditions, as the LXX and Hebrew diverge in chapter ordering and occasional wording, raising questions about the composition history of Jeremiah.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 44

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