Jeremiah 35:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • Ps 37:16 : 16 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
  • Jer 35:7 : 7 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.
  • Num 16:14 : 14 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up."
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

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  • Jer 35:5-8
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    86%

    5I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink wine!

    6But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever:

    7neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.

    8We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

  • Jer 35:10-11
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    84%

    10but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

    11But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.

  • Jer 35:14
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    14The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

  • Jer 35:16
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    16Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me;

  • Dan 9:10
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    10neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

  • Neh 9:34-37
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    34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

    35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.

    36"Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

    37It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 5:2-5
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    2For there were that said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live."

    3Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine."

    4There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

  • Jer 35:18-19
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    18Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;

    19therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.

  • Jer 35:2-3
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    2Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.

    3Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

  • Jer 29:5
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    5Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Dan 9:6
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    6neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Jer 42:13-14
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    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

    14saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

  • Neh 10:30
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    30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • Jer 44:17
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    17But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

  • Josh 22:29
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    29"Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!"

  • Josh 22:26
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    26"Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

  • Num 32:18
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    18We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Ezra 5:9
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    9Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"

  • Josh 24:13
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    13I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant.'

  • Ezra 9:9
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    9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?"

  • 1 Chr 17:5
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    5for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.

  • Lam 5:3-4
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    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

    4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

  • Deut 6:11
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    11and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;

  • Neh 10:39
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    39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

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  • Josh 9:13
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    13These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."

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    28because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?

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    6For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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    16Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.

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    17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.