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Wycliffe Bible

Jeremiah 35:10

but we dwelliden in tabernaclis, and weren obeiynge, and diden bi alle thingis, whiche Jonadab, oure fadir, comaundide to vs.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abstinence, Total;   Hanan;   Jonadab;   Wine;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Tents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jonadab;   Rechabites;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Citizenship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehonadab;   Jonadab;   Kenites;   Rechab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jehonadab;   Kenites;   Nations;   Rechab, Rechabites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Vote;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jonadab ;   Rechab ;   Rechabites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonadab;   Rechabites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jon'adab;   Prison;   Re'chab;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jehonadab;   Jehu;   Rechab;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa Al-Isfahani;   Jehonadab (Jonadab);   Will;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done everything our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.
Hebrew Names Version
but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Yehonadav our father commanded us.
King James Version
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
English Standard Version
but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
New American Standard Bible
"But we have lived only in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that our father Jonadab commanded us.
New Century Version
We have lived in tents and have obeyed everything our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.
Amplified Bible
"We have lived only in tents, and have obeyed and done [everything] according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
World English Bible
but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But we haue remained in tentes, and haue obeyed, and done according to all that Ionadab our father commaunded vs.
Legacy Standard Bible
We have only inhabited tents and have listened and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Berean Standard Bible
But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
Complete Jewish Bible
We have lived in tents, and we have heeded Yonadav our ancestor and done everything he ordered us to do.
Darby Translation
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Easy-to-Read Version
We have lived in tents and have obeyed everything our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.
George Lamsa Translation
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Lexham English Bible
But we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed, and we have done all that Jehonadab, our ancestor, commanded us.
Literal Translation
But we live in tents, and we have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but we dwell in tentes, we obeye, & do acordinge vnto all, that Ionadab oure father commaunded vs.
American Standard Version
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Bible in Basic English
But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but we have dwelt in tents, and have hearkened, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
King James Version (1611)
But wee haue dwelt in tents, and haue obeyed, and done according to all that Ionadab our father commanded vs.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But we dwell in tentes, we obay, and do according vnto all that Ionadab our father commaunded vs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.
English Revised Version
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Update Bible Version
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Webster's Bible Translation
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
New English Translation
We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.
New King James Version
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
New Living Translation
We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed all the commands of Jehonadab, our ancestor.
New Life Bible
We have only lived in tents. We have obeyed, and have done all that our father Jonadab told us.
New Revised Standard
but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but we have dwelt in tents, - and have hearkened and done, according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Revised Standard Version
but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that Jon'adab our father commanded us.
Young's Literal Translation
and we dwell in tents, and we hearken, and we do according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Contextual Overview

1 The word that was maad of the Lord to Jeremye, in the daies of Joachym, sone of Josie, 2 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. 3 And Y took Jeconye, the sone of Jeremye, sone of Absanye, and hise britheren, and alle the sones of hym, and al the hous of Recabitis. 4 And Y ledde hem in to the hous of the Lord, to the treserie of the sones of Eman, sone of Godolie, the man of God; which treserie was bisidis the treserie of princes, aboue the tresour of Maasie, sone of Sellum, that was kepere of the vestiarie. 5 And Y settide bifore the sones of the hous of Recabitis pecis, and grete cowpis ful of wyn; and Y seide to hem, Drinke ye wyn. 6 And thei answeriden, We schulen not drinke wyn; for whi Jonadab, oure fadir, the sone of Recab, comaundide to vs, and seide, Ye schulen not drinke wyn, ye and youre sones, `til in to withouten ende; 7 and ye schulen not bilde an hous, and ye schulen not sowe seed, and ye schulen not plaunte vynes, nether schulen haue, but ye schulen dwelle in tabernaclis in alle youre daies, that ye lyue many daies on the face of erthe, in which ye goen in pilgrymage. 8 Therfor we obeieden to the vois of Jonadab, oure fadir, the sone of Recab, in alle thingis whiche he comaundide to vs; so that we drunken not wyn in alle oure dayes, we, and oure wymmen, oure sones, and douytris; 9 and we bildiden not housis to dwelle, and we hadden not a vyner, and a feeld, and seed; 10 but we dwelliden in tabernaclis, and weren obeiynge, and diden bi alle thingis, whiche Jonadab, oure fadir, comaundide to vs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 35:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:20 - dwell Leviticus 23:42 - General Jeremiah 35:6 - Ye shall Jeremiah 35:7 - all

Cross-References

Genesis 17:5
and thi name schal no more be clepid Abram, but thou schalt be clepid Abraham, for Y haue maad thee fadir of many folkis;
Genesis 17:15
Also God seide to Abraham, Thou schalt not clepe Saray, thi wijf, Sarai, but Sara;
Genesis 35:27
Also Jacob came to Isaac, his fadir, in to Manbre, a citee Arabee, this is Ebron, in which Manbre Abraham `and Isaac was a pylgrym.
Genesis 35:28
And the daies of Isaac weren fillid an hundrid and foure scoore of yeris;
1 Kings 18:31
And he took twelue stonys, bi the noumbre of lynagis of sones of Jacob, to which Jacob the word of the Lord was maad, and seide, Israel schal be thi name.
2 Kings 17:34
`til in to present dai thei suen the eld custom; thei dredden not the Lord, nethir thei kepen hise cerymonyes, and domes, and lawe, and comaundement, which the Lord comaundide to the sones of Jacob, whom he nemyde Israel;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But we have dwelt in tents,.... Ever since, until very lately, when they had taken up their dwelling in Jerusalem; the reason of which is presently given:

and have obeyed, and done according to all Jonadab our father commanded us; and should it be objected, that in one point they had not obeyed, in that they had left their tents, and now dwelt in Jerusalem; they had this to say in answer to it, and as the reason of their so doing, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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