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href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/35.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>XXXV.</span><p>(1) In <span class= "bld">the days Jehoiakim.</span>—The prophecy that follows carries us back over a period of about seventeen of years to the earlier period of the prophet’s life and work. Jerusalem was not yet besieged. Jehoiakim had not filled up the measure of his iniquities. The armies of the Chaldæans were, however, in the meantime moving on the outskirts of the kingdom of Judah (<a href="/jeremiah/35-11.htm" title="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.">Jeremiah 35:11</a>) or were driving the nomad inhabitants, who had hitherto dwelt in tents, to take refuge in the cities. The first capture of the city by Nebuchadnezzar was in B.C. 607.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/jeremiah/35.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/jeremiah/35-1.htm" title="The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,">Jeremiah 35:1</a></span>. <span class="ital">The word which came unto Jeremiah in the days of Jehoiakim,</span> &c. — Here we have another evidence that the prophecies of this book are not placed in that order wherein they were delivered, for all the intermediate prophecies from chap. 26. belong clearly to the reign of Zedekiah; and consequently are posterior to this chapter and the next, which are dated in the reign of Jehoiakim, together with chap. 45., which is closely connected with the latter of these two chapters. This may most probably be referred to the fourth year of Jehoaikim’s reign, when Nebuchadnezzar, having beaten the king of Egypt’s army at Euphrates, (see <a href="/jeremiah/46-2.htm" title="Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.">Jeremiah 46:2</a>,) marched toward Syria and Palestine, to recover those provinces again which the king of Egypt had conquered, in which expedition he laid siege to Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/jeremiah/35.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>35:1-11 Jonadab was famous for wisdom and piety. He lived nearly 300 years before, 2Ki 10:15. Jonadab charged his posterity not to drink wine. He also appointed them to dwell in tents, or movable dwelling: this would teach them not to think of settling any where in this world. To keep low, would be the way to continue long in the land where they were strangers. Humility and contentment are always the best policy, and men's surest protection. Also, that they might not run into unlawful pleasures, they were to deny themselves even lawful delights. The consideration that we are strangers and pilgrims should oblige us to abstain from all fleshly lusts. Let them have little to lose, and then losing times would be the less dreadful: let them sit loose to what they had, and then they might with less pain be stript of it. Those are in the best frame to meet sufferings who live a life of self-denial, and who despise the vanities of the world. Jonadab's posterity observed these rules strictly, only using proper means for their safety in a time of general suffering.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/jeremiah/34.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Which are gone up from you - i. e., which have departed for the present, and have raised the siege. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/jeremiah/35.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>CHAPTER 35<p>Jer 35:1-19. Prophecy in the Reign of Jehoiakim, when the Chaldeans, in Conjunction with the Syrians and Moabites, Invaded Judea.<p>By the obedience of the Rechabites to their father, Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews to God their Father. The Holy Spirit has arranged Jeremiah's prophecies by the moral rather than the chronological connection. From the history of an event fifteen years before, the Jews, who had brought back their manumitted servants into bondage, are taught how much God loves and rewards obedience, and hates and punishes disobedience.By the obedience of the Rechabites, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/jeremiah/35-1.htm" title="The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,...">Jeremiah 35:1-11</a></span>, God condemneth the Jews’ disobedience, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/jeremiah/35-12.htm" title="Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,...">Jeremiah 35:12-17</a></span>. The Rechabites are blessed, <span class="bld"><a href="/jeremiah/35-18.htm" title="And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he has commanded you:">Jeremiah 35:18</a>,19</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/jeremiah/35.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>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" and "eleventh" years of Zedekiah's reign: but this <p>in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; in what part of his reign is not certain; but it must be after Nebuchadnezzar had invaded the land, <a href="/jeremiah/35-11.htm">Jeremiah 35:11</a>; very probably in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, after he had been the king of Babylon's servant three years, and rebelled against him, <a href="/2_kings/24-1.htm">2 Kings 24:1</a>; <p>saying; as follows: <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/jeremiah/35.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days <span class="cverse3">{a}</span> of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,</span><p>(a) For the disposition and order of these prophecies. See Geneva Jer 27:1</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/jeremiah/35.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">1</span>. <span class="ital">The word which came … in the days of Jehoiakim</span>] This and the following chapter form a remarkable break in the narrative of chs. 32–44. They at once bring us back from the tenth year of the reign of Zedekiah to the later part of Jehoiakim’s reign, when the Babylonian army had entered Palestine and compelled many of its inhabitants to take refuge within Jerusalem. Among these were the Rechabites.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Jeremiah 35:1<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/jeremiah/35.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Jeremiah's dealings with the Rechabites - <a href="/jeremiah/35-2.htm">Jeremiah 35:2</a>. Jeremiah is to go to the house, i.e., the family, of the Rechabites, speak with them, and bring them into tone of the chambers of the temple, and set before them wine to drink. בּית , <a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/35-2.htm">Jeremiah 35:2</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/35-3.htm">Jeremiah 35:3</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/35-18.htm">Jeremiah 35:18</a>, is exchanged for בּני בית־הרכבים, <a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/35-5.htm">Jeremiah 35:5</a>, from which it is apparent that "the house of the Rechabites" does not mean their dwelling-place, but the family, called in <a href="/1_chronicles/2-55.htm">1 Chronicles 2:55</a> בּית־רכב. According to this passage, the Rechabites were a branch of the Kenites, i.e., descendants of the Kenite, the father-in-law of Moses (<a href="/judges/1-16.htm">Judges 1:16</a>), who had gone to Canaan with the Israelites, and welt among them, partly in the wilderness on the southern frontier of the tribe of Judah (<a href="/1_samuel/15-6.htm">1 Samuel 15:6</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/27-10.htm">1 Samuel 27:10</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/30-29.htm">1 Samuel 30:29</a>), partly at Kadesh in Naphtali (<a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/4-11.htm">Judges 4:11</a>, <a href="/judges/4-17.htm">Judges 4:17</a>; <a href="/judges/5-24.htm">Judges 5:24</a>). Their ancestor, or father of the tribe, was Rechab, the father of Jonadab, with whom Jehu made a friendly alliance (<a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-15.htm">2 Kings 10:15</a>, <a href="/2_kings/10-23.htm">2 Kings 10:23</a>). Jonadab had laid on them the obligation to live in the special manner mentioned below, in order to keep them in the simplicity of nomad life observed by their fathers, and to preserve them from the corrupting influences connected with a settled life. לשׁכות, "cells of the temple," were additional buildings in the temple fore-courts, used partly for keeping the stores of the temple (<a href="/1_chronicles/28-12.htm">1 Chronicles 28:12</a>), partly as dwellings for those who served in it, and as places of meeting for those who came to visit it; see <a href="/ezekiel/40-17.htm">Ezekiel 40:17</a>.<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/jeremiah/35-1.htm">Jeremiah 35:1 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/34-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 34:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 34:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/35-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 35:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 35:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>