Jeremiah 35:2

God tells Jeremiah to bring the Rechabites into the temple and offer them wine. This sets up a test of their obedience.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Chr 2:55and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
• 1 Chr 9:26But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.
• 1 Kgs 6:5–6Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
• Ezek 40:7–13Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.
• Neh 13:8–9And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
• 2 Chr 31:11Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
• Ezek 42:4–13In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
• 2 Chr 3:9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
• Ezra 8:29Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
• 1 Chr 9:33Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.
• Jer 35:4and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
• Ezek 40:16The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.
• 1 Chr 23:28but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,
• Jer 35:8And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
• 2 Kgs 10:15–16When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,
• Ezek 41:5–11Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
• 1 Kgs 6:10He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
• Neh 13:5and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.

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