Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Children ... fathers ... women - All members of the family take part in this idolatry.
Cakes - Probably very similar to those offered at Athens to Artemis.
To the queen of heaven - A Persian and Assyrian deity, who was supposed to symbolize a quality possessed by moonlight of giving to nature its receptive power, as the sun represented its quickening power. The moon thus became generally the symbol of female productiveness, and was worshipped as such at Babylon. Disgraceful usages to which every woman was obliged once to submit formed part of her worship.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 7:18:
Deuteronomy 32:1-42
2 Kings 21:9
Isaiah 57:6
Jeremiah 44:19
Ezekiel 8:14
Hosea 3:1
Zephaniah 1:5
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