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 2:55The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
• 1 Chr 9:26for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
• 1 Kgs 6:5–6Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.
• Ezek 40:7–13Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed wide; and between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
• Neh 13:8–9It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
• 2 Chr 31:11Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.
• Ezek 42:4–13Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
• 2 Chr 3:9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
• Ezra 8:29Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
• 1 Chr 9:33These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
• Jer 35:4and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
• Ezek 40:16There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees.
• 1 Chr 23:28For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
• Jer 35:8We 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;
• 2 Kgs 10:15–16When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
• Ezek 41:5–11Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
• 1 Kgs 6:10He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
• Neh 13:5had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests.

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