John Trapp on Jeremiah 44:21

Ver. 21. Ye, and your fathers, your Kings and you Princes] This was another thing they ſtood much upon, that their fathers had done it: ſo had their Grandees. If men can ſay We have ſinned with our fathers, they think tis enough. The heretike Dioſcurus cried out I hold with the Fathers, I am caſt out with the Fathers, &c. yea Hierom once deſired leave of Auguſtine to err with ſeven Fathers, whom he found of his opinion. But what ſaith the Scripture? Be not ye the ſervants of men, 1 Cor. 7.23. And what ſaid a great Politician, I will not live by example, but by rule: neither will I pin my faith on anothers ſleeve, becauſe I know not whither he may carry it.

Did not the Lord remember them?] When you thought he had forgot them. Sin may ſleep a long time, like a ſleeping debt, not called for of many years, &c.