Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 44:15

"Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying," — Jeremiah 44:15 (ASV)

All the men which knew that their wives had burned incense. —The fact thus mentioned incidentally shows that the prophet’s words in Jeremiah 44:9 had not missed their mark. As in ancient times—as, we may add, in the Rome of the Empire (Juvenal, Sat. vi. 526–534)—the women practised a cultus in which their husbands acquiesced, even though they did not join in it.