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Jeremiah 35:2

house. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the descendants of Rechab, through Jonadab his son. who became their chieftain and lawgiver. Compare Jeremiah 35:6.

Rechabites They were descended from Hobab, the brother-inlaw of Moses.. Kenite tribe, who migrated with Israel to Canaan. Compare Numbers 10:29 with Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11; Judges 5:24; 1 Samuel 15:6. They were proselytes, not idolaters; inhabiting the wilderness south of Judah.

one of the chambers. There were many, for various purposes of the Temple worship. Compare Jeremiah 36:10 with 1 Kings 6:5; 1 Chronicles 9:27; Nehemiah 13:4.

wine. Hebrew. yayin. [fermented wine] App-27.

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See also Jeremiah 35:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 35:2. _THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES_] The _Rechabites_ were not descendants of _Jacob_; they were _Kenites_, 1 Chronicles 2:55, a people originally settled in that part of _Arabia Petra...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE HOUSE - The family. THE RECHABITES - The Rechabites were a nomadic tribe not of Jewish but of Kenite race, and connected with the Amalekites Numbers 24:21; 1 Samuel 15:6, from whom however they ha...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 35 The Faithful Rechabites and the Unfaithful Jews _ 1. The command concerning the Rechabites (Jeremiah 35:1) _ 2. The lesson for the Jews (Jeremiah 35:12) The Rechabites were Kenites and w...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 35. A LESSON IN OBEDIENCE FROM THE RECHABITES. These were the descendants of that Jonadab who, in 842, aided Jehu to overthrow the house of Ahab and the cult of Baal of Tyre (2 Kings 10:15 *)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Go unto the house_ The family (so in 3, 5, 18; Genesis 7:1, etc.) are meant, not the dwelling-houses. See Jeremiah 35:7. It was some years after the burning of the Roll (in Jehoiakim's fourth year),...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GO UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES— Several learned men are of opinion, that the Jonadab mentioned in this chapter was not the same with him who is mentioned Exodus 10:15 for they think it is not lik...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A. The Fidelity of the Rechabites Jeremiah 35:1-11 TRANSLATION (1) The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, (2) Go unto the h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Go 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. RECHABITES - a nomadic tribe belonging to...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    35:2 Rechabites, (c-7) See 2 Kings 10:15 ; 1 Chronicles 2:55 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S NINETEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE OBEDIENCE OF THE RECHABITES This and Jeremiah 36 form a break in the narrative, bringing us back from the tenth year of Zedekiah to the insecur...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The Rechabites were descended from Hobab, brother-in-law of Moses, of the Kenite tribe. They migrated with the Israelites from the wilderness to Palestine: cp. Numbers 10:29; Judges 1:16.;...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    GO UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES... — The word “house” is used throughout the chapter in the sense of “family.” Among those who had thus taken refuge were the tribe, or sect, or even fraternity kno...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָלֹוךְ֮ אֶל ־בֵּ֣ית הָ רֵכָבִים֒ וְ דִבַּרְת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IV THE RECHABITES Jeremiah 35:1 "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before Me forever."- Jeremiah 35:19 THIS incident is dated "in the days of Jehoiakim." We learn from...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A LESSON FROM THE RECHABITES Jeremiah 35:1-19 Among the refugees from the neighboring country who sought asylum within the walls of Jerusalem, was a group of Arabs, known as Rechabites. Probably they...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The last of these prophecies of the siege consists of telling the story of the Rechabites and applying it to the existing conditions. Jeremiah told how in the days of Jehoiakim he had been charged to...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Go to the house of the (b) Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. (b) They came from Hobab, Moses father-in-l...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rechabites. These were of the race of Jethro, father-in-law to Moses. (Challoner) --- All the Hebrew and Latin doctors agree that the Rechabites were strangers, ver. 7, 19. (Worthington) --- Treasure...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This family of the Rechabites was an ancient family, for we find the founder of it in the days of Jesse, 2 Kings 10:15. But some have supposed that it began much earlier, even tracing it to Hobab, Mos...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE RECHABITES_ ‘The, house of the Rechabites.’ Jeremiah 35:2 Among the tribes that sought safety in Jerusalem one attracted universal notice. It was the family of the Rechabites, who had come to...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    _Go, _said he, _to the house of Rechab, _(we have said that they dwelt then at Jerusalem, and this will appear hereafter) _and bring them unto the house of Jehovah _But we must inquire why the Prophet...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The obedience of the Rechabites is set forth in order to shew out more clearly the sin of Judah-disobedient in spite of the remonstrances and the patience of God. God does not forget the obedience tha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    GO UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES,.... Or "family" c; these are the same with the Kenites, who descended from Hobab or Jethro, Moses's father in law, Judges 1:16; these, as their ancestors, became p...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Go 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. Ver. 2. _Go unto the house of the Rechabite...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Go to the house of the Rechabites_ “The Rechabites, as may be collected from Jeremiah 35:7, were not of the children of Israel, but strangers of another race that dwelt among them. From 1 Chronicles...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Go unto the house of the Rechabites, a family descending from the tribe of the Kenites, with some prominent members, 2 Kings 10:15, AND SPEAK UNTO THEM, AND BRING THEM INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, INTO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FACT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-11 Jonadab was famous for wisdom and piety. He lived nearly 300 years before, 2 Kings 10:15. Jonadab charged his posterity not to drink wine. He also appointed them to dwell in tents, or movable dw...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 Hamet...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 35:2 Go H1980 (H8800) house H1004 Rechabites H7397 speak H1696 (H8765) bring H935 (H868

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RECHABITES ARE HELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE OF OBEDIENCE TO THEIR FATHER (JEREMIAH 35:1). Commencing with the words, ‘The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the days of Jehoiakim,' the passage demo...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH CALL THE RECHABITES TO A GATHERING AND OFFERS THEM WINE (JEREMIAH 35:1). Jeremiah 35:1 ‘The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Obedience of the Rechabites in the reign of Jehoiakim. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Jaazaniah, sons of Hanan, Jonadab, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: The obedience of many unsaved pe...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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, p...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Go 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 RECHABITES Did the Lord make a propos...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 35:2 RECHABITES. Nomadic tribe that originated with the Kenites (Judges 4:11;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 J...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The third member of this group of short prophecies. In it, Jeremiah points to the faithful obedience of the Rechabites, as putting to shame the infidelity of Judahites. It belongs obviousl...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The 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 ti...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 2:55; 1 Chronicles 23:28; 1 Chronicles 9:26; 1 Kings 6:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rechabites — These Rechabites had their name from Rechab their father, descended from Hemath, a Kenite, who is also called Hobab, Judges 4:11, or Jethro the father in law of Moses....

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