Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 35:15
All ... the prophets - The Rechabites had had but one lawgiver: the Jews had had a succession of messengers from God.
All ... the prophets - The Rechabites had had but one lawgiver: the Jews had had a succession of messengers from God.
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 *)...
RISING UP EARLY AND SENDING THEM. These verses point out the wonderful patience and long suffering of God and the continued effort to turn Israel away from its sins. They had from the time of Moses b...
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _Ish_. App-14. EVIL. Hebrew. _raa._ App-44....
See introd. summary to the section. This portion, which forms the application of the preceding narrative, seems to have received considerable later additions. The LXX seem to present it in practically...
B. The Faithlessness of the Jews Jeremiah 35:12-15 TRANSLATION (12) And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, (13) Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the man of...
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serv...
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...
RETURN YE NOW EVERY MAN FROM HIS EVIL WAY. — The words are more than a general summary of the teaching of earlier prophets, and we find in them an almost verbal reproduction of the burden of Jeremiah’...
וָ אֶשְׁלַ֣ח אֲלֵיכֶ֣ם אֶת ־כָּל ־עֲבָדַ֣י הַ
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...
Here we have the application of the history, as the Lord intended it, to Judah and Jerusalem: and a close heart-felt application it is. Reader! do not fail to observe the graciousness of the Lord to h...
_INDIFFERENCE TO DIVINE APPEALS_ ‘Ye have not inclined your ear.’ Jeremiah 35:15 There can be no more convincing proof of the power of sin to harden the heart than the indifference with which multi...
He afterwards adds, that he was assiduous in teaching them, _rising early and speaking _By _speaking, _he intimates that he had daily repeated the same things, so that forgetfulness might not be plead...
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...
I HAVE SENT ALSO UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS,.... One after another, ever since the times of Moses, to explain and enforce the laws given; a circumstance not to be observed in the case of th...
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them], saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to ser...
_Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah_ As the trial of the constancy of the Rechabites was only intended for a sign, so now we have the application of it made by God himself. _Tell the men of...
I have sent also unto you all My servants, the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way and amend your doings and go not after other gods to serve...
THE APPLICATION...
12-19 The trial of the Rechabites' constancy was for a sign; it made the disobedience of the Jews to God the more marked. The Rechabites were obedient to one who was but a man like themselves, and Jo...
God, in this revelation of his mind to the prophet, expoundeth to him why he had set him to bring the Rechabites into the temple, and commanded him to set wine before them, and invite them to drink of...
Jeremiah 35:15 sent H7971 (H8799) servants H5650 prophets H5030 early H7925 (H8687) sending H7971 (H8800) sayin
YHWH USES THE LOYALTY OF THE RECHABITES TO THEIR ‘FATHER' AS A CONTRAST WITH THE BEHAVIOUR OF JUDAH TOWARDS THEIR ‘FATHER' (JEREMIAH 35:12). The Rechabites had proved their loyalty to their ‘father' ...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 35:15 God SENT regular reminders of his covenant with Judah through the PROPHETS (Jeremiah 7:23;
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 Thessalonians 4:8; Acts 26:20; Deuteronomy 30:20; Ezekiel 18:30;...