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Jeremiah 35:1

in Jeremiah 35

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

KJV

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

This verse in Jeremiah 35

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The word which came - in the days of Jehoiakim - What strange confusion in the placing of these chapters! Who could have expected to hear of Jehoiakim again, whom we have long ago buried; and we have now arrived in the history at the very last year of the last Jewish king. This discourse was probably delivered in the fourth or fifth year of Jehoiakim’s reign.

This site's exposition

This is the word that came

on Jeremiah 35:1-5

Jeremiah brings “the entire house of the Rechabites” into a chamber and sets “pitchers full of wine and some cups” before them. The date, “in the days of Jehoiakim,” places the scene earlier than the Zedekiah oracles around it. The scene prepares a contrast between the clan's obedience and Judah's.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

The word - This is another evidence that the prophecies of this book are not left us in that order wherein they were delivered; for those which we had in the two or three foregoing chapters being in the time of Zedekiah, must needs be ten or eleven years after this.
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.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

to the house of the Rechabites The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab, and they were of the sons of Jethro.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 35:2:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הַדָּבָ֛רthe word

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הָיָ֥הit came

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֖הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • מֵאֵ֣תfrom with

    meetH854 →929 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בִּימֵ֨יin [the] days of

    bimeiH3117 →2304 times

  • יְהוֹיָקִ֧יםJehoiakim

    yehoyakimH3079 →37 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יֹאשִׁיָּ֛הוּJosiah

    yoshiyahuH2977 →53 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 25:1

    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 36:1

      In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Kings 24:1–2

      During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 26:1

    At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:4–5

      Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 36:29

    You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 26:9

      How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the…

    • Isaiah 30:10

      They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 1:3

    and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 39:2

      And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

    • 2 Kings 23:34

      Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he…

    • 2 Chronicles 36:5–8

      Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Where this verse is studied

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About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.