Jeremiah 44 in the early church

[Vulgate: Jeremias]

13 passages quote, allude to, or echo Jeremiah 44, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 12 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 21 · 22 · 27

Jeremiah 44:12

And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:12	Book of Rules 4 · Tyconius	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 380

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:16 (51:16 LXX)	Homilies on Exodus 8.6 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Jer 44:16–17	Demonstration 16.2 · Aphrahat	quotation, high confidence	337-345
Jer 44:16	Demonstration 19.12 · Aphrahat	quotation, high confidence	337-345

Jeremiah 44:17

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:17 (51:17 LXX)	On First Principles 1.7.3 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Jer 44:17 (51:17 LXX)	Homilies on Exodus 8.6 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Jer 44:17 (51:17 LXX)	Against Celsus 5.8 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 248
Jer 44:17–18	Book of Heresies 15.1 · Philastrius of Brescia	allusion, high confidence	ca. 380s

Jeremiah 44:18

But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:18	Book of Heresies 15.2 · Philastrius of Brescia	allusion, high confidence	ca. 380s

Jeremiah 44:19

“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:19	Dialogue with Trypho 136.3 · Justin Martyr	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 155–160

Jeremiah 44:21

“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:21 (51:21 LXX)	On the Governance of God 6.45 · Salvian of Marseilles	quotation, high confidence	ca. 439-451

Jeremiah 44:22

So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:22 (51:22 LXX)	On the Governance of God 6.45 · Salvian of Marseilles	quotation, high confidence	ca. 439-451

Jeremiah 44:27

I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Jer 44:27	Oration 16.7 · Gregory of Nazianzus	echo, low confidence	ca. 362–383