Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 44:25

25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows .

Those words have spoken are in the Hebrew of the feminine Gender which giveth good reason to some interpreters to conclude the Wom[illegible: 1 letter]n were first and principal in this Idolatry, and the mens guilt lay in conniving at them, and suffering themselves to be seduced by them. Ye, saith the Prophet, have spoken it, and ye have been as big as your words, and for a cover you pretend the Religion of a Vow, as if a Vow could be a bond of iniquity, and it were possible by a vow to oblige your selves to a forsaking of the true God and a committing of Idolatry.

The latter words seem Ironical as to have this sense, you are resolved upon it, and there is no moving you from your resolution, God hath resolved too.

Marginal references: Ver. 15. &c.