Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 44:15

15 ¶ Then all the men which knew that their wives had burnt incense to other Gods , and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying ,

The burning of Incense was a religious Rite, which God had appointed the Iews as a piece of Divine Homage to be paid to him alone, and by an ordinary figure is put for Worship. So as burning Incense to other gods, is the same with worshipping other Gods.

It should seem that all the Iews had not been thus far guilty, and those that did it were mostly Women, or at least they were the Leaders in this Idolatry, and one would think the phrase implieth, that those who were thus culpable did it with some privacy, so as all their Husbands did not know of it, but those that did were as bad as their wives, conniving at them, and justifying them in their Idolatry, and joyning with them in the following peremptory answer to, and contempt of the Prophet.