Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 44:8

8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath, with the works of your hands , burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut your selves off, and that ye might be a curse, and a reproach amongst all the nations of the earth .

Idols are usually thus defamed, and indeed nothing can argue a greater stupidity than for any to pay an homage (confessedly due to the supreme being) to what is the work of mens hands, and therefore must be made by one Superiour to that order of Beings in which Idols are. But how doth the Prophet say, that they worshipped the works of mens hands? for it is apparent from ver. 17. that they paid this homage to the Queen of heaven, which is not the work of mens hands. Sol. It was before Images which are but the works of mens hands. And this certainly was the Idolatry of the generality of the Heathens, they worshipped an unknown Divine Being before a Creature, either as representing it, or rather putting them in mind of it.

The term that doth not denote the Idolaters end of intention, for none ever did any act intentionally to ruine themselves, it onely signifies the end of their work that their utter ruine would be the certain consequent of their work.