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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:18 — KJV
Children. The entire family, including the children, was united in idolatrous worship; hence the sweeping character of the judgment pronounced upon them (see on ch. 6:11).
Cakes. Heb. kawwanim, “sacrificial cakes.” The offering of sacrificial cakes was a characteristic element in a number of Near Eastern cults. This heathen practice later found its way into Christianity. Epiphanius (Against Heresies lxxviii. 23; lxxix. 1) declared that some women go so far as to “offer cakes in the name and to the honor of the blessed Virgin.” “Upon certain days they present bread and offer it in the name of Mary. But they all partake of this.” The sacrificial cakes of Jeremiah’s day were a kind of meal offering with which a libation, or drink offering, was combined (see ch. 44:19, 25) as a part of the worship. It is thought that the figure of the goddess may have been stamped upon the cakes.
Queen of heaven. See on ch. 44:17.
Other gods. The worship of the queen of heaven was but one form of foreign idolatry being carried on.
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