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Jeremiah 35:18

in Jeremiah 35

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

KJV

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

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This verse in Jeremiah 35

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) Temperance, self-denial, and mortification to the world, do very much befriend the exercises of piety, and help to transmit the observance of them to posterity. The more dead we are to the delights of sense the better we are disposed for the service of God; but nothing is more fatal to the entail of religion in a family than pride and luxury.

This site's exposition

the house of the Rechabites

on Jeremiah 35:18-19

The clan that kept a man's word for two hundred years receives a promise from God's own mouth: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever, a household without land or vineyard given a permanence Judah had just forfeited. Henry and Gill both note the shape of the reward, standing before the Lord echoes the language used of priests and of faithful servants, honor extended to outsiders who kept a lesser law rather than to the covenant people who broke a greater one. The chapter closes without further comment, the contrast between verses 11 and 19 left to make its own case.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem. This chapter is of an earlier date than many of those before; for what is contained in it was said and done in the days of Jehoiakim (

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The words behind it

26 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.

  • וּלְבֵ֨יתand to [the] house of

    uleveitH1004 →2046 times

  • הָרֵכָבִ֜יםthe Rechabites

    harekhavimH7397 →5 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֗הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • כֹּֽה־thus

    koh-H3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֞רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֤הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • צְבָאוֹת֙of hosts

    tzevaotH6635 →485 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֣י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • יַ֚עַןbecause

    yaanH3282 →99 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • שְׁמַעְתֶּ֔םyou have listened

    shema'temH8085 →1159 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מִצְוַ֖ת[the] commandment of

    mitzvatH4687 →181 times

  • יְהוֹנָדָ֣בJonadab

    yehonadavH3082 →8 times

  • אֲבִיכֶ֑םancestor your

    ʾavikhemH1 →1212 times

  • וַֽתִּשְׁמְרוּ֙and you have kept

    vatishmeruH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מִצְוֹתָ֔יוcommandments his

    mitzvotavH4687 →181 times

  • וַֽתַּעֲשׂ֔וּand you have done

    vataasuH6213 →2628 times

  • כְּכֹ֥לaccording to all

    kekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֖הhe commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • אֶתְכֶֽם׃ ס<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

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

    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.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 6:1–3

      Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Colossians 3:20

      Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 5:16

      Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…

    • Mark 7:10

      For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

    • Proverbs 23:22–25

      Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 5:16

    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • Deuteronomy 4:40

      Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your…

    • Deuteronomy 27:16

      ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 35 →

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

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