And Jeremiah said … Rechabites The LXX, doubtless rightly, omit these words (see on Jeremiah 35:12), and seem to have preserved the original form, "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Inasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have obeyed the commandment of their father to do as their father commanded them," while the MT. has been compelled by the insertion to change the 3rd person into the 2nd.

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