Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
All the men which knew that their wives had burned incense - the idolatry began with the, wives (1 Kings 11:4; 1 Timothy 2:14). Their husbands' connivance implicated them in the guilt.