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Complete Jewish Bible

Jeremiah 35:2

"Go to the Rekhavim, speak to them, bring them to one of the rooms in the house of Adonai , and give them some wine to drink."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Hanan;   Wine;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jehonadab;   Kenites;   Nations;   Rechab, Rechabites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rechabites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - House;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonadab;   Rechabites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Re'chab;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abstinence;   Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa Al-Isfahani;   Peace-Offering;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the temple of the Lord to offer them a drink of wine.”
Hebrew Names Version
Go to the house of the Rechavim, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the Lord , into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink."
New American Standard Bible
"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
New Century Version
"Go to the family of Recab. Invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the Temple of the Lord , and offer them wine to drink."
Amplified Bible
"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the [side] chambers; then give them [who are pledged not to drink wine] some wine to drink."
World English Bible
Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Go vnto the house of the Rechabites, and speake vnto them, and bring them into the house of the Lorde into one of the chambers, and giue them wine to drinke.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
Berean Standard Bible
"Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine."
Contemporary English Version
"Go to the Rechabite clan and invite them to meet you in one of the side rooms of the temple. When they arrive, offer them a drink of wine."
Darby Translation
Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Go to the Recabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the Lord 's Temple. Offer them wine to drink."
George Lamsa Translation
Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Good News Translation
"Go to the members of the Rechabite clan and talk to them. Then bring them into one of the rooms in the Temple and offer them some wine."
Lexham English Bible
"Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of Yahweh into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
Literal Translation
Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them to the house of Jehovah, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Go vnto ye house of the Rechabites, & call them out, & bringe the to ye house of the LORDE in to some commodious place, and geue them wyne to drynke.
American Standard Version
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Bible in Basic English
Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'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.'
King James Version (1611)
Goe vnto the house of the Rechabites, and speake vnto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and giue them wine to drinke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Go vnto the house of the Rechabites, and call them out, and bryng them to the house of the Lorde, into some commodious place, and geue them wine to drinke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord; I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
kyng of Juda, and seide, Go thou to the hous of Recabitis, and speke thou to hem; and thou schalt brynge hem in to the hous of the Lord, in to o chaumbre of tresouris, and thou schalt yyue to hem to drynke wyn.
Update Bible Version
Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Webster's Bible Translation
Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
New English Translation
"Go to the Rechabite community. Invite them to come into one of the side rooms of the Lord 's temple and offer them some wine to drink."
New King James Version
"Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
New Living Translation
"Go to the settlement where the families of the Recabites live, and invite them to the Lord 's Temple. Take them into one of the inner rooms, and offer them some wine."
New Life Bible
"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them. Then bring them to one of the rooms of the house of the Lord, and give them wine to drink."
New Revised Standard
Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord , into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, - and give them, wine, to drink.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the treasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.
Revised Standard Version
"Go to the house of the Re'chabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink."
Young's Literal Translation
`Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and thou hast spoken with them, and brought them into the house of Jehovah, unto one of the chambers, and caused them to drink wine.'
THE MESSAGE
"Go visit the Recabite community. Invite them to meet with you in one of the rooms in God 's Temple. And serve them wine."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."

Contextual Overview

1 This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai during the time of Y'hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y'hudah: 2 "Go to the Rekhavim, speak to them, bring them to one of the rooms in the house of Adonai , and give them some wine to drink." 3 So I took Ya'azanyah the son of Yirmeyahu, the son of Havatzinyah, and his brothers, all his sons and all the Rekhavim, 4 and took them into the house of Adonai , to the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Yigdalyahu, a man of God. It was by the room of the officials, which was above the room of Ma‘aseiyah the son of Shalum, the gatekeeper. 5 There I set in front of the members of the clan of the Rekhavim pitchers full of wine and cups, and said to them, "Drink some wine." 6 But they said, "We will not drink any wine; because Yonadav the son of Rekhav, our ancestor, gave us this order: ‘You are not to drink wine, neither you nor your descendants, forever. 7 Also you are not to build houses, sow seed, or plant or own vineyards. Rather, you are always to live in tents; so that you may live a long time in the land, in which you are not citizens.' 8 We have heeded the words of Yonadav the son of Rekhav, our ancestor, in all that he instructed us to do: not to drink wine as long as we live — we, our wives, our sons and our daughters; 9 not to build houses for ourselves to live in; and not to have vineyards, fields or seed. 10 We have lived in tents, and we have heeded Yonadav our ancestor and done everything he ordered us to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the house: Jeremiah 35:8, 2 Kings 10:15, 2 Kings 10:16, 1 Chronicles 2:55

into one: Jeremiah 35:4, 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:6, 1 Kings 6:10, 1 Chronicles 9:26, 1 Chronicles 23:28, 2 Chronicles 3:9, 2 Chronicles 31:11, Ezra 8:29, Nehemiah 13:5, Nehemiah 13:8, Nehemiah 13:9, Ezekiel 40:7-13, Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 41:5-11, Ezekiel 42:4-13

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:21 - made them Judges 1:16 - the Kenite 2 Kings 11:2 - in the bedchamber 1 Chronicles 28:11 - upper chambers Jeremiah 35:5 - Drink Ezekiel 40:29 - the little Acts 10:13 - Rise

Cross-References

Genesis 18:19
For I have made myself known to him, so that he will give orders to his children and to his household after him to keep the way of Adonai and to do what is right and just, so that Adonai may bring about for Avraham what he has promised him."
Genesis 31:19
Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep, so Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father,
Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in the saddle of the camel and was sitting on them. Lavan felt all around the tent but did not find them.
Genesis 34:2
and Sh'khem the son of Hamor the Hivi, the local ruler, saw her, grabbed her, raped her and humiliated her.
Genesis 35:1
God said to Ya‘akov, "Get up, go up to Beit-El and live there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled ‘Esav your brother."
Genesis 35:2
Then Ya‘akov said to his household and all the others with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have with you, purify yourselves, and put on fresh clothes.
Genesis 35:3
We're going to move on and go up to Beit-El. There I will build an altar to God, who answered me when I was in such distress and stayed with me wherever I went."
Genesis 35:4
They gave Ya‘akov all the foreign gods in their possession and the earrings they were wearing, and Ya‘akov buried them under the pistachio tree near Sh'khem.
Genesis 35:7
He built there an altar and called the place El-Beit-El [God of Beit-El], because it was there that God was revealed to him, at the time when he was fleeing from his brother.
Genesis 35:10
God said to him, "Your name is Ya‘akov, but you will be called Ya‘akov no longer; your name will be Isra'el." Thus he named him Isra'el.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go unto the house of the Rechabites,.... Or "family" c; these are the same with the Kenites, who descended from Hobab or Jethro, Moses's father in law, Judges 1:16; these, as their ancestors, became proselytes to Israel, and always continued with them, though a distinct people from them; these here had their name from Rechab, a famous man in his time among those people:

and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord; into the temple; for they were worshippers of the true God, though foreigners and uncircumcised persons; and so might be admitted into places belonging to the temple:

into one of the chambers; of the temple, where there were many; some for the sanhedrim to sit in; others for the priests to lay up their garments and the vessels of the sanctuary in; and others for the prophets and their disciples to converse in together about religious matters:

and give them wine to drink; set it before them, and invite them to drink of it, and thereby try their steady obedience to their father's commands. Now this family was brought to the temple either in vision, as it seemed to the prophet; or really, which latter is most probable; and that for this reason, that this affair might be transacted publicly, and many might he witnesses of it, and take the rebuke given by it; and, as some think, to reproach the priests for their intemperance.

c אל בית "ad familiam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The house - The family.

The Rechabites - The Rechabites were a nomadic tribe not of Jewish but of Kenite race, and connected with the Amalekites Numbers 24:21; 1 Samuel 15:6, from whom however they had separated themselves, and made a close alliance with the tribe of Judah Judges 1:16, on whose southern borders they took up their dwelling 1 Samuel 27:10. While, however, the main body of the Kenites gradually adopted settled habits, and dwelt in cities 1 Samuel 30:29, the Rechabites persisted in leading the free desert life, and in this determination they were finally confirmed by the influence and authority of Jonadab, who lived in Jehu’s reign. He was a zealous adherent of Yahweh 2 Kings 10:15-17, and possibly a religious reformer; and as the names of the men mentioned in the present narrative are all compounded with Yah, it is plain that the tribe continued their allegiance to Him.

The object of Jonadab in endeavoring to preserve the nomad habits of his race was probably twofold. He wished first to maintain among them the purer morality and higher feeling of the desert contrasted with the laxity and effeminacy of the city life; and secondly he was anxious for the preservation of their freedom. Their punctilious obedience Jeremiah 35:14 to Jonadab’s precepts is employed by Jeremiah to point a useful lesson for his own people.

The date of the prophecy is the interval between the battle of Carchemish and the appearance of Nebuchadnezzar at Jerusalem, Jeremiah 35:11 at the end of the same year. It is consequently 17 years earlier than the narrative in Jeremiah 34:8 ff

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 35:2. The house of the Rechabites — The Rechabites were not descendants of Jacob; they were Kenites, 1 Chronicles 2:55, a people originally settled in that part of Arabia Petraea, called the land of Midian; and most probably the descendants of Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses. Compare Numbers 10:29-32, with Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11.

Those mentioned here seem to have been a tribe of Nomades or Scenite Arabs, who fed their flocks in the deserts of Judea; they preserved the simple manners of their ancestors, considering the life of the inhabitants of cities and large towns as the death of liberty; believing that they would dishonour themselves by using that sort of food that would oblige them to live a sedentary life. Jonadab, one of their ancestors, had required his children and descendants to abide faithful to the customs of their forefathers; to continue to live in tents, and to nourish themselves on the produce of their flocks; to abstain from the cultivation of the ground, and from that particularly of the vine and its produce. His descendants religiously observed this rule, till the time when the armies of the Chaldeans had entered Judea; when, to preserve their lives, they retired within the walls of Jerusalem. But even there we find, from the account in this chapter, they did not quit their frugal manner of life: but most scrupulously observed the law of Jonadab their ancestor, and probably of this family.

When the children of Hobab, or Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, were invited by him to accompany them in their journeying to the Promised Land, it is very likely that they continued their ancient usages, and lived a patriarchal life. Their property, consisting in nothing but their cattle and tents, was easily removable from place to place; and their manner of living was not likely to excite the envy or jealousy of those who had learnt to relish the luxuries of life; and therefore we may naturally conclude that as they were enemies to none, so they had no enemies themselves. Nature has few wants. Most of those which we feel are factitious; and howsoever what we call civilization may furnish us with the conveniences and comforts of life, let us not deceive ourselves by supposing that these very things do not create the very wants which they are called in to supply; and most certainly do not contribute to the comfort of life, when the term of life is considerably abridged by their use. But it is time to return to the case of the Rechabites before us.


 
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