Jeremiah 35:7
Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 25:27And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.
Leviticus 23:42And you shall dwell in bowers seven days: every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles:
Jeremiah 35:10But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Ephesians 6:2Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:
1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,
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 →