Jeremiah 35:7
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seede, nor plant vineyarde, nor haue any, but all your dayes ye shall dwell in tentes, that ye may liue a long time in the land where ye be strangers.
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Genesis 25:27And the boyes grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, and liued in the fields: but Iaakob was a plaine man, and dwelt in tentes.
Leviticus 23:42Ye shall dwell in boothes seuen daies: all that are Israelites borne, shall dwel in boothes,
Jeremiah 35:10But we haue remained in tentes, and haue obeyed, and done according to all that Ionadab our father commanded vs.
Ephesians 6:2Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandement with promise)
1 Peter 2:11Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,
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 →