Jeremiah 35:7 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Jeremiah 35:7

5 Then I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine.”

6 But they said, “We will drink no wine, for ^aJonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink ^bno wine, you nor your sons, forever.

7 You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, ^athat you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners.’

8 Thus we have ^aobeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

9 nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; nor do we have vineyard, field, or seed.

Commentaries:

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tents— (Judges 4:17).

live many days—according to the promise connected with the fifth commandment (Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:2-3).

strangers—They were not of the stock of Jacob, but sojourners in Israel. Types of the children of God, pilgrims on earth, looking for heaven as their home: having little to lose, so that losing times cost them little alarm; sitting loose to what they have (Hebrews 10:34; Hebrews 11:9-10, Hebrews 11:13-16).

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