Jeremiah 35:9

The NET Bible®

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We also have not built houses to live in and do not have vineyard, field, or seed.

Hebrew Names Version
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

King James Version
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

English Standard Version
and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed,

New American Standard Bible
nor to build ourselves houses to live in; and we do not have a vineyard, a field, or seed.

New Century Version
We never build houses in which to live, or own fields or vineyards, or plant crops.

Amplified Bible
nor have we built ourselves houses to live in; nor do we have vineyards or fields or seed.

World English Bible
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither builde wee houses for vs to dwell in, neither haue we vineyard, nor fielde, nor seede,

Legacy Standard Bible
nor to build ourselves houses to inhabit; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.

Berean Standard Bible
Nor have we built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields, or crops.

Complete Jewish Bible
not to build houses for ourselves to live in; and not to have vineyards, fields or seed.

Darby Translation
and not to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed;

Easy-to-Read Version
We never build houses to live in, we never own vineyards or fields, and we never plant crops.

George Lamsa Translation
Nor to build houses for ourselves to dwell in; neither to have vineyards nor fields nor seed;

Good News Translation
We do not build houses for homes—we live in tents—and we own no vineyards, fields, or grain. We have fully obeyed everything that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.

Lexham English Bible
and not to build houses for our living, and there is not vineyard, or field, or seed for us.

Literal Translation
nor to build houses for us for our dwelling; nor do we have a vineyard, or field, or seed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nether buylde we eny house to dwell therin, we haue also amonge vs nether vynyardes, ner corne lode to sowe:

American Standard Version
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Bible in Basic English
Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither to have vineyard, or field, or seed;

King James Version (1611)
Nor to build houses for vs to dwel in, neither haue we Uineyard, nor field, nor seed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neither buylde we any house to dwel therein: we haue also among vs neither vineyardes, nor corne lande to sowe:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As for the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come to pass, they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in truth.

English Revised Version
nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and we bildiden not housis to dwelle, and we hadden not a vyner, and a feeld, and seed;

Update Bible Version
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Webster's Bible Translation
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

New King James Version
nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; nor do we have vineyard, field, or seed.

New Living Translation
We haven't built houses or owned vineyards or farms or planted crops.

New Life Bible
We have never built houses to live in, and we do not have grape-fields or fields or seeds to plant.

New Revised Standard
and not to build houses to live in. We have no vineyard or field or seed;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and not to bud houses for us to dwell in, - and so, vineyard or field or seed, have we none;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field, or seed:

Revised Standard Version
and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed;

Young's Literal Translation
nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord spoke to Jeremiah when Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. ² "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." ³ So I went and got Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah the grandson of Habazziniah, his brothers, all his sons, and all the rest of the Rechabite community. ⁴ I took them to the Lord 's temple. I took them into the room where the disciples of the prophet Hanan son of Igdaliah stayed. That room was next to the one where the temple officers stayed and above the room where Maaseiah son of Shallum, one of the doorkeepers of the temple, stayed. ⁵ Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them, "Have some wine." ⁶ But they answered, "We do not drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us not to. He told us, ‘You and your children must never drink wine. ⁷ Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.' ⁸ We and our wives and our sons and daughters have obeyed everything our ancestor Jonadab commanded us. We have never drunk wine. ⁹ We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops. ¹⁰ We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

Bible Verse Review
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Jeremiah 35:7, Numbers 16:14, 2 Kings 5:26, Psalms 37:16, 1 Timothy 6:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:20 - dwell

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Genesis 26:2
The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

Genesis 28:13
and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."

Genesis 32:1
So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 35:3
Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nor build houses for us to dwell in,.... This explains that part of the charge more fully, which respects building of houses; which did not restrain them from building houses for others, if any of them were masters of that art; which is not very likely, since they were wholly brought up in the field as shepherds; but it forbad them building any for themselves, and making use of them by dwelling in them:

neither have we vineyard, nor field, or seed; any piece of ground planted with vines, or field sown with corn, or any seed to sow with; so exactly conformable were they to the prescriptions of their ancestor. Diodorus Siculus g reports of the Nabatheans, a people of Arabia, descended from Nebaioth, see Isaiah 60:7; that they have several laws which are much the same with those enjoined the Rechabites; for he says,

"it is a law with them not to sow corn, nor to plant any plant that bears fruit, nor to make use of wine, nor to build houses; and whosoever is found doing any of these things is, reckoned worthy of death; and the reason of their having such a law is, because they think that those who possess such things are easily compelled by men in power to do whatever is commanded them, for the sake of the enjoyment of them.''

g Bibliothec. l. 19. p. 730. Ed. Rhod.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our father - Not merely our ancestor, but the founder of our institutions.