INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 35 In this chapter the disobedience of the people of the Jews unto God is aggravated by the obedience of the Rechabites to their father; and the one are threatened with the judgments of God upon them, and the other have a promise of the divine blessing. The time of this pro... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD WHICH CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD,.... Not as following the former prophecies; for they must be delivered seventeen years after this. The prophecies of Jeremiah are not put together in their proper time in which they were delivered. The preceding prophecies were delivered in the "tenth... [ Continue Reading ]
GO UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES,.... Or "family" c; these are the same with the Kenites, who descended from Hobab or Jethro, Moses's father in law, Judges 1:16; these, as their ancestors, became proselytes to Israel, and always continued with them, though a distinct people from them; these here... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN I TOOK JAAZANIAH THE SON OF JEREMIAH, THE SON OF HABAZINIAH,.... Who was, no doubt, the most famous and leading man in this family: AND HIS BRETHREN, AND ALL HIS SONS, AND THE WHOLE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES; the several branches of the family, especially the males; the women perhaps only except... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I BROUGHT THEM INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... Into the temple, as he was ordered; that is, he invited them thither, and they came along with him, having, no doubt, a respect for him as a prophet; and the rather, as it is highly probable he came in the name of the Lord to them: INTO THE CHAMBER... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SET BEFORE THE SONS OF THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES POTS FULL OF WINE, AND CUPS,.... Which the prophet might have out of the chambers where these vessels were, and particularly from Maaseiah, if he was a keeper of them, as before observed. The number of men gathered together was probably very l... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY SAID, WE WILL DRINK NO WINE,.... Or "we do not drink wine" e; we are not used to it; we never do drink any; it is not lawful for us to do it; nor will we, let who will solicit us: FOR JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB OUR FATHER; not their immediate father, but their progenitor; perhaps the same J... [ Continue Reading ]
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 advantage; nor possess either of these through purchase or gift: all this was enjoined them, partly beca... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS HAVE WE OBEYED THE VOICE OF JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB OUR FATHER,.... The above was the charge he gave them; and this, in every article of it, they had carefully and constantly kept, though it had been for the space of three hundred years, or thereabout; as follows: IN ALL HE HATH CHARGED US,... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR BUILD HOUSES FOR US TO DWELL IN,.... This explains that part of the charge more fully, which respects building of houses; which did not restrain them from building houses for others, if any of them were masters of that art; which is not very likely, since they were wholly brought up in the field... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE HAVE DWELT IN TENTS,.... Ever since, until very lately, when they had taken up their dwelling in Jerusalem; the reason of which is presently given: AND HAVE OBEYED, AND DONE ACCORDING TO ALL JONADAB OUR FATHER COMMANDED US; and should it be objected, that in one point they had not obeyed, in... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME UP INTO THE LAND,.... Into the land of Judea to invade it, which was in the reign of Jehoiakim, in the fourth year of it, after he had served him three years, and rebelled against him; Jeremiah 35:1; THAT WE SAID, COME, AND LET US GO TO... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO JEREMIAH,.... After the Rechabites had been tried whether they would break the command of their father, respecting drinking of wine; and steadfastly persisted in their resolution not to drink, urging the reason of it, and vindicating their conduct in another respe... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The Lord of armies in heaven and earth; the Creator of Israel; their benefactor, covenant God and Father and whom they professed to worship; God and not man; infinitely greater than Jonadab, whose precepts had been observed by his posterity: GO A... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORDS OF JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB, THAT HE COMMANDED HIS SONS, NOT TO DRINK WINE, ARE PERFORMED,.... That article particularly, respecting drinking wine, has been carefully observed; which, though so agreeable to the nature of man, what cheers the heart of God and man, and was not prohibited th... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the Rechabites; who yet, without such intimations, kept the charge their father gave them: RISING UP... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THE SON OF JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB,.... Here we have the contrast between the Rechabites and the Israelites; the obedience of the one, and the disobedience of the other; the design of which is to aggravate and expose the sin of the Jews, since the former HAVE PERFORMED THE COMMANDMENT OF... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Provoked by such ill usage: BEHOLD, I WILL BRING UPON JUDAH, AND UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, ALL THE EVIL THAT I HAVE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM: which Abarbinel interprets of all the threatenings and curses in the law and t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JEREMIAH SAID UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES,.... To the family of them, to those that were with him in the temple, and while they were there; and what he said to them, which is as follows, was by the order and direction of the Lord: THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; he uses th... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Who has enjoined children obedience to their parents, and has promised to reward it, and does: JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB SHALL NOT WANT A MAN TO STAND BEFORE ME FOR EVER; which may be understood of a long time, of ages to come; or as lo... [ Continue Reading ]