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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 35:1-19

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter. Seventeen years earlier than the preceding narrative of the manumission of the slaves; about the fourth year of Jehoiakim’s reign. From Jeremiah 35:11 we find that these Rechabites were driven from the desert-scenes they inhabited into Jerusalem for shelter, consequent upon the conquests of Nebuchadnezzar. These conquests began with the victory at Charchemish; and at the end of the same year as that decisive battle against Egypt, he... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 35:1-19

Chapter 35The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim ( Jeremiah 35:1 )So we're going back even further now, even before Zedekiah was the king. This prophecy came way back in the time of Jehoiakim.the son of Josiah the king of Judah, saying, Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and set before them wine to drink. Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 35:1-19

Jeremiah 35:2 . Go to the house of the Rechabites, then come up to Jerusalem with their flocks for fear of the Chaldean army. This family is often named in the scriptures, as descended from Jethro, priest of Midian. They were descendants of Midian, son of Cush. They are called Kenites by Moses. Numbers 24:0. Judges 1:16. Jonadab was the son of Rechab in a near or remote line, and sheik or prince of his people at the time when Jehu ascended the throne. Abhorring the crimes of the late reign,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 35:1-19

Jeremiah 35:1-19Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. The RechabitesDid the Lord make a proposal to total abstainers to drink wine? Did he send for them to a kind of wine festival? Is this the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer, “Load us not into temptation”? Is not the Lord always thus leading men into temptation?--not in the patent and vulgar sense in which that term is generally... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 35:16-17

Jeremiah 35:16-17I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.Condemned by our virtuesHow did the obedience of the Rechabites prove inexcusable, and therefore worthy of the severest punishment, the disobedience of the Jews? Their obedience was the obedience of children to their father, and sufficiently showed... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 35:17

Jer 35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. Ver. 17. Behold, I will bring upon Judah. ] Aut poenitendum aut pereundum. Men must either repent, or perish; obey God’s law, or bear the penalty; no remedy. Hebrews 2:2 2Th 1:8 read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 35:17

Therefore: God having, by the conduct of the Rechabites, convicted the Jews of ingratitude and rebellion, He now proceeds to pass sentence against them. Behold: Jeremiah 11:8, Jeremiah 15:3, Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 19:7-1 Chronicles :, Jeremiah 21:4-2 Samuel :, Genesis 6:17, Leviticus 26:14-1 Corinthians :, Deuteronomy 28:15-Judith :, Deuteronomy 29:19-Hosea :, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 31:21, Deuteronomy 32:16-Luke :, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16, Micah 3:12 because: Jeremiah 7:13,... read more

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