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 families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
• 1 Chr 9:26For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
• 1 Kgs 6:5–6And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
• Ezek 40:7–13And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
• Neh 13:8–9And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
• 2 Chr 31:11Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
• Ezek 42:4–13And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
• 2 Chr 3:9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
• Ezra 8:29Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
• 1 Chr 9:33And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
• Jer 35:4And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
• Ezek 40:16And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
• 1 Chr 23:28Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
• Jer 35:8Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
• 2 Kgs 10:15–16And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
• Ezek 41:5–11After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
• 1 Kgs 6:10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
• Neh 13:5And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

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