Jeremiah 35

Jeremiah 35
Book of Jeremiah in Hebrew Bible, MS. Sassoon 1053, images 283-315.
Book Book of Jeremiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 24
Category Nevi'im

Jeremiah 35 is the thirty-fifth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah 42 in Septuagint. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.[1][2] This chapter records the meeting of Jeremiah with the Rechabites, a nomadic family, to "contrast their faithfulness to the commands of a dead ancestor with the faithlessness of the people of Judah to the commands of a living God."[3]

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Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying (NKJV)[4]

This chapter (and also chapter 36) is out of the chronological order of chapter 32-34 and 37-44, as it records the events during the reign of king Jehoiakim (609-598 BC).[3] According to Weippert, "the phrases found in the chapter are characteristic of Jeremiah."[5] Huey maintains that it is not "misplaced by accident or through a redactor's ignorance of the chronology of events", but perhaps to "emphasis that Judah's disobedience ... had begun much earlier than the closing years of Zedekiah's reign."[3] When Egyptians decided to fight the Babylonians in Palestine, Nebuchadnezzar temporarily lifted the siege on Jerusalem, raiding other areas in Judah instead (660-598 SM), which drove the Rechabites to Jerusalem for safety during that period.[3][6]

Verse 18

And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts and done according to all that he commanded you’” (NKJV)[7]
  • "The house of the Rechabites": A close knit descendants of the Kenites (Judges 1:16; 1 Chronicles 2:55) known from the story of Jehonadab the son of Rechab, who helped Jehu (reigning 842-814 BC)[8] purging the Baal prophets from Samaria (2 Kings 10:15-28). The Rechabites lived as nomads, rejecting all forms of urban and agrarian life, and refused to drink wine or strong drink and would not cultivate vineyards nor plant any other crops.[9] The complete obedience of the Rechabites is "outlined in a triad of verbs: obeyed...kept...done."[10]

Verse 19

[Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites:] “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forever.”” (NKJV)[11]
  • "Stand before Me": an expression found over 100 times in the Old Testament means "to stand before someone with an attitude of service," used of priests (Numbers 16:9 NKJV), kings (1 Kings 10:8) or prophets (1 Kings 17:1).[3] LXX has the closing as παραἵστημι κατά πρόσωπον ἐγώ πᾶς ὁ ἡμέρα ὁ γῆ[12] ("to stand before my face while the earth remains").[13] Nehemiah 3:14 notes that "Malchijah the son of Rechab ... repaired the Refuse Gate; he built it and hung its doors with its bolts and bars", cooperating to restore the wall of Jerusalem, approximately 150 years later.[3]
More sightings are reported through the ages: Hegesippus,[14] in his account of the "martyrdom of James the Just", speaks about the "priests of the sons of Rechab" looking on in reverential sympathy with James; Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish traveller in the 12th century, reports that about 100,000 Jews, who were called "Rechabites" with the customs as in this chapter, lived near El Jubar;[15] Dr. Wolff[16][17] describes a Rechabite tribe near Mecca, who observed the rule of Jonadab;[15]

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[18]

The order of CATSS based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs edition (=CATSS).[18]

Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs'LXX (CATSS)
35:1-1942:1-19
28:1-1735:1-17

See also

  • Related Bible part: Judges 1, 2 Kings 10, 1 Chronicles 2

Notes and references

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Huey 1993, p. 312.
  4. ↑ Jeremiah 35:1
  5. ↑ Weippert, H. Die Prosareden des Jeremiabuches, BZAW, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1973. pp. 121-148.
  6. ↑ Nicholson, E. W. Jeremiah, CBC. Cambridge: University Press. 1973. pp. 100-101.
  7. ↑ Jeremiah 35:18
  8. ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. p. 1135 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  9. ↑ The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1289.
  10. ↑ The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1290.
  11. ↑ Jeremiah 35:19
  12. ↑ Jeremiah 35:19 Interlinear - Study Light
  13. ↑ Brenton Septuagint Translation, 1884. Versification mapped to KJV for coordination with other Old Testament Bible texts. Jeremiah 35 - BibleHub
  14. ↑ Eusebius. Hist. Eccl. II. 23
  15. 1 2 Ryle 2009.
  16. ↑ Wolff. Journal, 1829, ii. 334; 1839, p. 389
  17. ↑ Rechabites - Easton's Bible Dictionary
  18. 1 2 CCEL - Brenton Jeremiah Appendix

Bibliography

  • Ryle, Herbert Edward (2009). The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Paperback. BiblioBazaar. ISBN 9781117708690.
  • Huey, F. B. (1993). The New American Commentary - Jeremiah, Lamentations: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture, NIV Text. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 9780805401165.
  • The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999.

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