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 the Palestine, Nebuchanezzar temporarily lifted up the siege on Jerusalem, and instead, raided other areas in Judah (660-598 SM), which drove the Rechabites to Jerusalem for safety during that period of time.[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]

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]
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
28:1-17 35:1-17

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Therodore 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

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