Jeremiah 35:16 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Jeremiah 35:16 - Exposition

Because , etc. This rendering is against Hebrew usage, and any reader will see that the obedience of the Rechabites stands in no inner connection with the sentence pronounced upon Judah. Jeremiah 35:16 is rather an emphatic recapitulation of what has preceded. It runs literally, ( I say ) that the sons of Jonadab have performed, etc; but ( that ) this people hath not hearkened unto me; or, in more English phraseology, "Yea, the sons of Jonadab," etc.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Jeremiah 35:16 - Exposition

Jeremiah 35:16 - Exposition

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