Jeremiah 35:10

But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.

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In The King James Version

But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

In Context

9Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

11But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:42For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:

Jeremiah 35:7And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 35:2-12

The Case of the Rechabites. ( b. c. 607.) 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 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. 3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; 4 And I brought them into the house of the Lord , into the… Read the whole commentary →

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