That ye may live — Jonadab cautions his sons by a thrifty, sober, laborious life, to which they had been bred, in keeping flocks, to avoid any thing which might expose them to the envy or hatred of the people amongst whom they were come to sojourn.
Wine is the symbol of a settled life, because the vine requires time for its growth and care in its cultivation, while the preparation of the wine itself requires buildings, and it then has to be stor...
CHAPTER 35 The Faithful Rechabites and the Unfaithful Jews _ 1. The command concerning the Rechabites (Jeremiah 35:1) _ 2. The lesson for the Jews (Jeremiah 35:12) The Rechabites were Kenites and w...
JEREMIAH 35. A LESSON IN OBEDIENCE FROM THE RECHABITES. These were the descendants of that Jonadab who, in 842, aided Jehu to overthrow the house of Ahab and the cult of Baal of Tyre (2 Kings 10:15 *)...
BUILD. This was as essential as the former injunction. LIVE MANY DAYS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:12). App-92. IN THE LAND. on the soil....
_neither shall ye build house, etc_.] Cp. the description of the Nabataeans by Diodorus Siculus who says (19:94) that they neither sow seed, nor plant fruit-tree, nor use wine, nor build a house. In t...
A. The Fidelity of the Rechabites Jeremiah 35:1-11 TRANSLATION (1) The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, (2) Go unto the h...
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. TENTS - (; )....
35:7 land (b-34) Lit. 'upon the face of the ground.'...
JEREMIAH'S NINETEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE OBEDIENCE OF THE RECHABITES This and Jeremiah 36 form a break in the narrative, bringing us back from the tenth year of Zedekiah to the insecur...
(6-8) WE WILL DRINK NO WINE... — We have here, as it were, the rule of the tribe or order which looked to Jonadab as its founder. Like Samson (Judges 13:4), Samuel (inferentially from 1 Samuel 1:11; 1...
וּ בַ֣יִת לֹֽא ־תִבְנ֗וּ וְ זֶ֤רַע לֹֽא
CHAPTER IV THE RECHABITES Jeremiah 35:1 "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before Me forever."- Jeremiah 35:19 THIS incident is dated "in the days of Jehoiakim." We learn from...
A LESSON FROM THE RECHABITES Jeremiah 35:1-19 Among the refugees from the neighboring country who sought asylum within the walls of Jerusalem, was a group of Arabs, known as Rechabites. Probably they...
The last of these prophecies of the siege consists of telling the story of the Rechabites and applying it to the existing conditions. Jeremiah told how in the days of Jehoiakim he had been charged to...
Days. The reward of dutiful children, Exodus xx. 12. These are models of those Christians who follow the rule of some virtuous person, in order to be at a greater distance from any transgression of th...
Reader! after paying due attention to the filial reverence and charity of this house of the Rechabites, pause over the history, to gather another profitable instruction from it of a spiritual nature;...
The obedience of the Rechabites is set forth in order to shew out more clearly the sin of Judah-disobedient in spite of the remonstrances and the patience of God. God does not forget the obedience tha...
NEITHER SHALL YE BUILD HOUSE, NOR SOW SEED, NOR PLANT VINEYARD, NOR HAVE [ANY],.... That is, they were not to build houses, sow seed, or plant vineyards, for themselves, for their own profit and adva...
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [be] strangers. Ver. 7. _Nei...
_I set before the sons of the Rechabites pots full of wine_, &c. In obedience to God's command, (Jeremiah 35:2,) and that the prophet might have full proof of their fixed resolution to adhere to the i...
neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any, in following any agricultural or horticultural pursuit, on account of which they might become settled in any one place; BU...
THE FACT...
1-11 Jonadab was famous for wisdom and piety. He lived nearly 300 years before, 2 Kings 10:15. Jonadab charged his posterity not to drink wine. He also appointed them to dwell in tents, or movable dw...
The last words of the verse probably give us a reason of the former; they were no native Jews, but strangers amongst them, who commonly are envied when they are observed to thrive too much, or to live...
Jeremiah 35:7 build H1129 (H8799) house H1004 sow H2232 (H8799) seed H2233 plant H5193 (H8799) vineyard...
JEREMIAH CALL THE RECHABITES TO A GATHERING AND OFFERS THEM WINE (JEREMIAH 35:1). Jeremiah 35:1 ‘The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,...
THE RECHABITES ARE HELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE OF OBEDIENCE TO THEIR FATHER (JEREMIAH 35:1). Commencing with the words, ‘The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the days of Jehoiakim,' the passage demo...
CONTENTS: Obedience of the Rechabites in the reign of Jehoiakim. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Jaazaniah, sons of Hanan, Jonadab, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: The obedience of many unsaved pe...
Jeremiah 35:2. _Go to the house of the Rechabites,_ then come up to Jerusalem with their flocks for fear of the Chaldean army. This family is often named in the scriptures, as descended from Jethro, p...
_Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink._ THE RECHABITES Did the Lord make a propos...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Seventeen years earlier_ than the preceding narrative of the manumission of the slaves; about the fourth year of Jehoiakim’s reign. From J...
EXPOSITION The third member of this group of short prophecies. In it, Jeremiah points to the faithful obedience of the Rechabites, as putting to shame the infidelity of Judahites. It belongs obviousl...
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 35:1) So we're going back even further now, even before Zedekiah was the king. This prophecy came way back in the ti...
1 Peter 2:11; Ephesians 5:18; Genesis 25:27; Hebrews 11:9; Jer