The word which came … in the days of Jehoiakim This and the following chapter form a remarkable break in the narrative of chs. 32 44. They at once bring us back from the tenth year of the reign of Zedekiah to the later part of Jehoiakim's reign, when the Babylonian army had entered Palestine and compelled many of its inhabitants to take refuge within Jerusalem. Among these were the Rechabites.

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