Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Jeremiah 35:16

in Jeremiah 35

Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto me;

KJV

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:

This verse in Jeremiah 35

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Theodoret of Cyrus

ON JEREMIAH 7:35.6-7 · Written before 458.

The God of all commands the prophet to tell all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "These people refuse to drink wine because they keep the commandment of their father, but you do not conduct yourselves according to my laws, although you receive the teachings of the …

This site's exposition

all my servants the prophets

on Jeremiah 35:15-17

The Lord widens the charge into the book's whole complaint, I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, the same standing patience Jeremiah has already voiced for himself now spoken for the whole prophetic line before him. The offer was plain, return, amend, stop serving other gods, and stay in the land already given; the answer was the same refusal repeated, ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. Barnes reads verse 17's sentence, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, as the direct legal consequence of that refusal, judgment following disobedience the way it does throughout the book.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Because the son of Jonadab the son of Rechab,....

The words behind it

16 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.

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • הֵקִ֗ימוּthey have carried out

    hekimuH6965628 times

  • בְּנֵי֙[the] sons of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • יְהוֹנָדָ֣בJonadab

    yehonadavH30828 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • רֵכָ֔בRechab

    rekhavH739413 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • מִצְוַ֥ת[the] commandment of

    mitzvatH4687181 times

  • אֲבִיהֶ֖םancestor their

    ʾavihemH11212 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • צִוָּ֑םhe commanded them

    tzivamH6680494 times

  • וְהָעָ֣םand the people

    vehaamH59711873 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • שָׁמְע֖וּthey have listened

    shameuH80851159 times

  • אֵלָֽי׃ סto me

    ʾelaiH4135510 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

    Malachi 1:6

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the…

    it leads to

    • Luke 6:46

      Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?

    • Isaiah 1:2

      Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

    • John 13:13–17

      You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

    • Exodus 20:12

      Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

    • 1 Peter 2:17–19

      Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

  • Through

    Isaiah 1:3

    The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 8:7

      Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 4:22

      “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

    • Isaiah 44:18

      They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, ON JEREMIAH 7:35.6-7.