Bible Commentaries
Jeremiah 35

Introduction

Overview

Jeremiah 35:1, By the obedience of the Rechabites, Jeremiah 35:12. Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews; Jeremiah 35:18, God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.

Verse 1

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The word: This discourse was probably delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when the king of Babylon made war against him.

in the: Jeremiah 1:3, Jeremiah 22:13-19, Jeremiah 25:1, Jeremiah 26:1, Jeremiah 36:1, Jeremiah 36:9, Jeremiah 36:29, Jeremiah 46:2, 2 Kings 23:35, 2 Kings 24:1-6, 2 Chronicles 36:5-8, Daniel 1:1

Verse 2

the house: Jeremiah 35:8, 2 Kings 10:15, 2 Kings 10:16, 1 Chronicles 2:55

into one: Jeremiah 35:4, 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:6, 1 Kings 6:10, 1 Chronicles 9:26, 1 Chronicles 23:28, 2 Chronicles 3:9, 2 Chronicles 31:11, Ezra 8:29, Nehemiah 13:5, Nehemiah 13:8, Nehemiah 13:9, Ezekiel 40:7-13, Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 41:5-11, Ezekiel 42:4-13

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:21 - made them Judges 1:16 - the Kenite 2 Kings 11:2 - in the bedchamber 1 Chronicles 28:11 - upper chambers Jeremiah 35:5 - Drink Ezekiel 40:29 - the little Acts 10:13 - Rise

Verse 4

into the chamber: Jeremiah 36:10-12

a man: Deuteronomy 33:1, Joshua 14:6, 1 Samuel 2:27, 1 Samuel 9:6-8, 1 Kings 12:22, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:26, 1 Kings 17:18, 1 Kings 17:24, 1 Kings 20:28, 2 Kings 1:9, 2 Kings 1:11-13, 2 Kings 5:14, 2 Kings 5:20, 2 Kings 6:10, 2 Kings 7:2, 2 Kings 7:17, 2 Kings 8:2-8, 2 Kings 23:16, 2 Kings 23:17, 2 Chronicles 8:14, 2 Chronicles 25:7-9, 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 3:17

the princes: Jeremiah 26:10

the keeper: Jeremiah 52:24, 2 Kings 12:9, 2 Kings 25:18, 1 Chronicles 9:18, 1 Chronicles 9:19, 1 Chronicles 9:27, 2 Chronicles 8:14, Psalms 84:10

door: Heb. threshold, or vessel, Ezekiel 43:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:5 - built 1 Chronicles 23:28 - for the service Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 40:7 - General

Verse 5

Drink: Jeremiah 35:2, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Amos 2:12, 2 Corinthians 2:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:9 - Do not

Verse 6

Jonadab: 2 Kings 10:15, 1 Chronicles 2:55

Ye shall: Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time - 2 Kings 10:15, 2 Kings 10:16, etc. had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Chronicles 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments. Leviticus 10:9, Numbers 6:2-5, Judges 13:7, Judges 13:14, Luke 1:15, 1 Corinthians 7:26-31, all, Jeremiah 35:10, Genesis 25:27, Leviticus 23:42, Leviticus 23:43, Nehemiah 8:14-16, Hebrews 11:9-13, 1 Peter 2:11, that ye, Genesis 36:7, Exodus 20:12, 1 Chronicles 16:19, Psalms 105:12, Ephesians 6:2, Ephesians 6:3

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:3 - General Jeremiah 35:14 - words

Verse 7

all: Jeremiah 35:10, Genesis 25:27, Leviticus 23:42, Leviticus 23:43, Nehemiah 8:14-16, Ephesians 5:18, Hebrews 11:9-13, 1 Peter 2:11

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 35:9 - General Hosea 12:9 - yet

Verse 8

Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 1:9, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 4:2, Proverbs 4:10, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 13:1, Colossians 3:20

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:15 - Jehonadab Esther 1:8 - none did compel Jeremiah 35:2 - the house Jeremiah 35:10 - General

Verse 9

Jeremiah 35:7, Numbers 16:14, 2 Kings 5:26, Psalms 37:16, 1 Timothy 6:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:20 - dwell

Verse 10

Jeremiah 35:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:20 - dwell Leviticus 23:42 - General Jeremiah 35:6 - Ye shall Jeremiah 35:7 - all

Verse 11

when: 2 Kings 24:2, Daniel 1:1, Daniel 1:2

Come: Jeremiah 4:5-7, Jeremiah 8:14, Mark 13:14, Luke 21:20, Luke 21:21

Reciprocal: Isaiah 9:12 - Syrians

Verse 13

Will: Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 6:8-10, Jeremiah 9:12, Jeremiah 32:33, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 32:9, Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 19:20, Isaiah 28:9-12, Isaiah 42:23, Hebrews 12:25

Reciprocal: Proverbs 29:1 - General Jeremiah 25:2 - General Hosea 11:2 - they called Zephaniah 3:2 - correction

Verse 14

words: Jeremiah 35:6-10

rising: Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 7:25, Jeremiah 11:7, Jeremiah 25:3, Jeremiah 25:4, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 29:19, Jeremiah 32:33, 2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Proverbs 1:20-33

but ye: Jeremiah 7:24, Jeremiah 7:26, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:30, Isaiah 30:9, Isaiah 50:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:43 - obey 2 Kings 10:15 - Jehonadab Jeremiah 35:16 - General Luke 13:34 - and ye Ephesians 6:1 - obey

Verse 15

I have: Luke 10:16, 1 Thessalonians 4:8

Return: Jeremiah 3:14, Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 7:3-5, Jeremiah 17:20-23, Jeremiah 18:11, Jeremiah 25:5, Jeremiah 26:13, Jeremiah 44:4, Jeremiah 44:5, Isaiah 1:16-19, Ezekiel 18:30-32, Hosea 14:1-4, Zechariah 1:3, Zechariah 1:4, Acts 26:20

ye shall dwell: Jeremiah 7:5-7, Jeremiah 17:24, Jeremiah 17:25, Jeremiah 22:4, Jeremiah 25:5, Jeremiah 25:6, Deuteronomy 30:20

ye have: Luke 13:34, Luke 13:35

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:3 - General 2 Kings 17:13 - Turn ye 2 Chronicles 36:15 - the Lord Isaiah 50:2 - when I came Jeremiah 7:13 - and I spake Jeremiah 11:7 - in the Jeremiah 11:8 - obeyed Jeremiah 17:23 - nor Jeremiah 19:15 - because Jeremiah 22:21 - I spake Jeremiah 23:22 - then Jeremiah 25:3 - rising Jeremiah 25:4 - rising Jeremiah 32:33 - rising Jeremiah 36:3 - they may Hosea 7:10 - and they Hosea 9:17 - because Zechariah 7:11 - they refused Matthew 21:34 - he sent Matthew 22:3 - sent Matthew 23:37 - how Mark 12:2 - a servant Luke 20:10 - sent Romans 10:21 - All day long

Verse 16

Jeremiah 35:14, Isaiah 1:3, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 15:11-13, Luke 15:28-30

Verse 17

Therefore: God having, by the conduct of the Rechabites, convicted the Jews of ingratitude and rebellion, He now proceeds to pass sentence against them.

Behold: Jeremiah 11:8, Jeremiah 15:3, Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 19:7-13, Jeremiah 21:4-10, Genesis 6:17, Leviticus 26:14-46, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:19-28, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 31:21, Deuteronomy 32:16-42, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16, Micah 3:12

because: Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 7:27, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 32:33, Proverbs 1:24-31, Proverbs 13:13, Proverbs 16:2, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 65:12, Isaiah 66:4, Luke 13:34, Luke 13:35, Romans 10:21

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 34:24 - I will bring Jeremiah 11:11 - I will bring Jeremiah 11:17 - pronounced Jeremiah 23:39 - and I Jeremiah 36:31 - will bring Jeremiah 39:16 - Behold Jeremiah 44:4 - I sent Zephaniah 3:2 - correction

Verse 18

Because: Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16, Ephesians 6:1-3

Reciprocal: Ephesians 6:2 - General

Verse 19

Jonadab: etc. Heb. There shall not a man be cut off from Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand, etc. Jeremiah 33:17, 1 Chronicles 2:55

stand: Jeremiah 15:19, Jeremiah 33:17, Jeremiah 33:18, Psalms 5:5, Luke 21:36, Jude 1:24

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 29:32 - he shall Jeremiah 40:10 - serve