Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 44:4

"Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate." — Jeremiah 44:4 (ASV)

Rising early and sending them ... —The prophet uses the same anthropomorphic language as previously (Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19). The term “abominable thing,” or “abomination,” though common in many of the books of the Old Testament, as in the Proverbs, where it is applied to moral enormities (e.g.,Proverbs 3:32; Proverbs 6:16), is especially characteristic, as applied to idolatry, of Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 27:15; Deuteronomy 32:16), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 8:12; Jeremiah 32:35), and Ezekiel (Ezekiel 5:11, and some forty other passages).