Jeremiah 35:9

Jeremiah 35:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
• New International Version (NIV)or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed,
• New King James Version (NKJV)nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; nor do we have vineyard, field, or seed.

Context of Jeremiah 35:9

7Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’ 8And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters. Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops. 10But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us. 11So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 35:9 word by word

וּלְבִלְתִּ֛י בְּנ֥וֹת בָּתִּ֖ים לְשִׁבְתֵּ֑נוּ וְכֶ֧רֶם וְשָׂדֶ֛ה וָזֶ֖רַע לֹ֥א יִֽהְיֶה־לָּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Nor have weבִּלְתִּיbiltîy · lestH1115
• builtבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129
• housesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• in which to liveיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• and we have not ownedלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• and we have not ownedהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• any vineyardsכֶּרֶםkerem · vineyardH3754
• or fieldsשָׂדֶהώâdeh ώâday · land: countryH7704
• or cropsזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seedH2233

Cross-references for Jeremiah 35:9

• Jeremiah 35:7Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
• Numbers 16:14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
• 2 Kings 5:26But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
• Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
• 1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 35:9

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8-10Verses 8-10 Our father - Not merely our ancestor, but the founder of our institutions.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-10Jehonadab had required his descendants to live a nomadic life without the comforts of settled living, and the Recabites had obeyed.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-19By the obedience of the Rechabites to their father, Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews to God their Father. The Holy Spirit has arranged Jeremiah's prophecies by the moral rather than the chronological connection. From the history of an event fifteen years before, the Jews, who had brought back their manumitted servants into bondage, are taught how much God loves and rewards obedience, and hates and punishes disobedience. 2. Rechabites--a…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 35:9

• Abstinence, Total
• Hanan
• Jonadab
• Wine

In the dictionaries

• Jehonadab
• Rechab
• Wine
• Gentiles
• Habaziniah
• Jehu
• Jeremiah (2)
• Rechab; Rechabites
• Prison

Commentaries on Jeremiah 35

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings