Jeremiah 35:9

nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

In Context

8We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

10but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Read all of Jeremiah 35

Cross References

2 Kings 5:26He said to him, "Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

Jeremiah 35:7neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.'

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Jeremiah 35:9