Jeremiah 35:7
Neither shall all of you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days all of you shall dwell in tents; that all of you may live many days in the land where all of you be strangers.
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Genesis 25:27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Leviticus 23:42All of you shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
Jeremiah 35:10But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Ephesians 6:2Honour your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I plead to you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, 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 →