Jeremiah 35:7

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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.’

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 25:27 : 27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
  • Eph 6:2-3 : 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely, 3 “that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. 12 So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore. 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
  • Lev 23:42-43 : 42 You must live in temporary shelters for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in shelters, 43 so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
  • Neh 8:14-16 : 14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month, 15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem:“Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.” 16 So the people went out and brought these things back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.
  • Jer 35:10 : 10 We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 35:8-10
    3 verses
    86%

    8We and our wives and our sons and daughters have obeyed everything our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us. We have never drunk wine.

    9We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

    10We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

  • Jer 35:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them,“Have some wine.”

    6But 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.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Lev 10:9
    74%

    9“Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

  • Jer 29:5
    74%

    5‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

  • Deut 28:39-41
    3 verses
    73%

    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

    40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

    41You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

  • Jer 35:14
    73%

    14Jonadab son of Rechab ordered his descendants not to drink wine. His orders have been carried out. To this day his descendants have drunk no wine because they have obeyed what their ancestor commanded them. But I have spoken to you over and over again, but you have not obeyed me!

  • Mic 6:15
    73%

    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

  • Jer 35:2
    72%

    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.”

  • Jer 35:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18Then Jeremiah spoke to the Rechabite community,“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘You have obeyed the orders of your ancestor Jonadab. You have followed all his instructions. You have done exactly as he commanded you.’

    19So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘Jonadab son of Rechab will never lack a male descendant to serve me.’”

  • Lev 23:42
    71%

    42You must live in temporary shelters for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in shelters,

  • Deut 22:9
    71%

    9Illustrations of the Principle of Purity You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

  • Isa 65:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    22No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.

  • Num 6:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

    4All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

  • Lev 25:3-5
    3 verses
    71%

    3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

    4but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest– a Sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.

  • Lev 25:11
    71%

    11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

  • Josh 24:13
    71%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Lev 8:33
    70%

    33And you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent for seven days, until the day when your days of ordination are completed, because you must be ordained over a seven-day period.

  • Jer 16:8
    70%

    8“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

  • Jer 35:16
    70%

    16Yes, the descendants of Jonadab son of Rechab have carried out the orders that their ancestor gave them. But you people have not obeyed me!

  • 2 Sam 7:6
    70%

    6I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent.

  • Jer 16:2
    70%

    2“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

  • Lev 25:20
    70%

    20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

  • Zeph 1:13
    70%

    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Deut 29:6
    70%

    6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!

  • Deut 6:11
    70%

    11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,

  • Jer 7:7
    70%

    7If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.

  • Josh 22:19
    69%

    19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.

  • Lev 19:33
    69%

    33When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

  • Amos 5:11
    69%

    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • Deut 16:13
    69%

    13The Festival of Temporary Shelters You must celebrate the Feast of Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.

  • Lev 23:31
    69%

    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Deut 12:17
    69%

    17You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

  • Ezek 44:21
    69%

    21No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

  • Ezra 9:12
    69%

    12Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’

  • Mic 2:5
    69%

    5Therefore no one will assign you land in the LORD’s community.

  • Lev 18:3
    69%

    3You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

  • Deut 11:9
    69%

    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 34:12
    69%

    12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.

  • Deut 24:21
    69%

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.