What does Jeremias Chapter 35 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The named treasury reception includes pots, cups and refused wine. Ancestral rules and military flight precede the obedience comparison. Rechabite obedience receives a lineage-specific promise.

Chapter breakdown

Jeremias 35 dates the word to Joakim and commands bringing Rechabites into a temple treasure chamber with wine. The edition identifies Jethro's race. Jezonias son of Jeremias son of Habsanias, brethren, sons and house enter Hanan's sons' treasury beside princes' treasury and above keeper Maasias son of Sellum's. Pots and cups are offered.

They refuse wine, citing Jonadab son of Rechab's perpetual command for them and children. No houses, sowing, vineyards or possession of them accompany tents and many days as strangers. Wives, sons and daughters have obeyed; they report no houses, vineyard, field or seed. Nabuchodonosor's arrival caused their entry to Jerusalem to avoid Chaldean and Syrian armies. Centuries, stone houses, dining hall, all alcoholic drinks and a philosophy of detached simplicity are not supplied.

The Lord asks Juda and Jerusalem to receive instruction. Jonadab's obeyed word contrasts with divine early speaking and servant prophets' appeals for good ways and no strange gods, promising ancestral dwelling. Unheard speech and unanswered calling bring all announced evil. Rechabite obedience receives the promise that Jonadab's race never lacks a man standing before the Lord. It is not generalized into perpetual protection for every disciplined community.

The story inside

Opening: The named treasury reception includes pots, cups and refused wine. Development: Ancestral rules and military flight precede the obedience comparison. Conclusion: Rechabite obedience receives a lineage-specific promise.

Lessons worth keeping

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The named treasury reception includes pots, cups and refused wine.
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Ancestral rules and military flight precede the obedience comparison.
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Rechabite obedience receives a lineage-specific promise.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 87787–87793
35:6. And they answered: We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your children, for ever: 35:7. Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.
Lines 87817–87822
35:14. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none to this day, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not obeyed me.