JEREMIAH CHAPTER 35 By the obedience of the Rechabites, JEREMIAH 35:1, God condemneth the Jews disobedience, JEREMIAH 35:12. The Rechabites are blessed, JEREMIAH 35:18,19. This is another evidence that the prophecies of this book are not left us in that order wherein they were delivered, for those w... [ Continue Reading ]
These RECHABITES had their name from Rechab their father, who, as appears from 1 CHRONICLES 2:55, descended from Hemath, who was a Kenite, who is also called Hobab, JUDGES 4:11 (unless it may be Hameth who was the son of Hobab). This Hobab was Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, as appears from JUDG... [ Continue Reading ]
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This term, THE MAN OF GOD, doth in Scripture signify a prophet sometimes; but whether it so signifieth here, and if it doth, whether it relateth to Igdaliah or Hanan, is a question. Probably by the CHAMBER OF THE PRINCES is meant some chamber where the princes were wont to meet in a court, or for co... [ Continue Reading ]
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It is uncertain whether _father_ here signifies their immediate parent, or (which is more probable) their progenitor; it is most likely it referreth to that Jonadab of whom we read 2 KINGS 10:15, who was the father (that is, the progenitor) of this family of the Rechabites, at three hundred years di... [ Continue Reading ]
The last words of the verse probably give us a reason of the former; they were no native Jews, but strangers amongst them, who commonly are envied when they are observed to thrive too much, or to live splendidly; and that envy of the natives of the place where they sojourn exposeth them to their hat... [ Continue Reading ]
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TENTS; movable habitations, which they could with little labour remove from place to place, as they had convenience to feed their flocks: this was their ordinary way of living, until necessity compelled them to come and live in Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
When the Chaldean army came into the land, they saw there would be no quiet abode for them any where but in some fortified place. The Syrians joined with the Chaldeans in this war, as we read, 2 KINGS 24:2. This they tell the prophet was the reason why they, who never used to dwell in cities nor fix... [ Continue Reading ]
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God, in this revelation of his mind to the prophet, expoundeth to him why he had set him to bring the Rechabites into the temple, and commanded him to set wine before them, and invite them to drink of it, viz. that by their refusal of doing according to the invitation, in obedience to their father J... [ Continue Reading ]
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This is but the same threatening confirmed, which we have often met with before, concerning the ruin of this people, only the meritorious cause of it is further amplified, their not paying that homage to God which these Rechabites paid to an earthly parent, and had been steady in the payment of now... [ Continue Reading ]
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FOR EVER here signifies the _ever_ of the Jewish state or church; whether the promise relates to the abiding of Jonadab's family, when many families of the Jews were quite rooted out, cut off, and extinct, or to some special favour that God would show them, or to some place of office they should hav... [ Continue Reading ]