Jeremiah 35:1
New International Version
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

New Living Translation
This is the message the LORD gave Jeremiah when Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah:

English Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Berean Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

King James Bible
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

New King James Version
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

New American Standard Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

NASB 1995
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

NASB 1977
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Amplified Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Christian Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

American Standard Version
The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Contemporary English Version
When Jehoiakim was king of Judah, the LORD told me,

English Revised Version
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD spoke his word to Jeremiah during the reign of Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah of Judah. He said,

Good News Translation
When Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me,

International Standard Version
This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD during the reign of Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah:

Majority Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

NET Bible
The LORD spoke to Jeremiah when Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah.

New Heart English Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

World English Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying:

Smith's Literal Translation
The word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, saying:

Catholic Public Domain Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying:

New American Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:

New Revised Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah:
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
THE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The word that came upon Jeremiah from before LORD JEHOVAH in the days of Yoiqim, son of Yoshiah, King of Judea, saying:
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS from the Lord in the days of Joakim, king of Juda, saying,
Audio Bible



Context
The Obedience of the Rechabites
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: 2“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”…

Cross References
2 Kings 23:35-37
So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth. / Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.

2 Kings 24:1-4
During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. / And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets. / Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done, ...

2 Chronicles 36:5-7
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. / Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. / Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

Jeremiah 25:1-3
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. / So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows: / “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

Jeremiah 36:1-3
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: / “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today. / Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Jeremiah 45:1-2
This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: / “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

Jeremiah 46:1-2
This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet / concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:

Jeremiah 1:1-3
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. / The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, / and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

Daniel 1:1-2
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. / And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.

Ezekiel 1:1-3
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. / On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— / the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.

2 Kings 23:31-34
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done. / And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ...

2 Kings 24:5-7
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? / And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place. / Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

2 Chronicles 36:8-10
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place. / Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. / In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Matthew 1:11-12
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. / After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

Luke 3:23-27
Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, / the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, / the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, ...


Treasury of Scripture

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

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Jeremiah 1:3
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

Jeremiah 22:13-19
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; …

Jeremiah 25:1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

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Jeremiah 35
1. By the obedience of the Rechabites,
12. Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews.
18. God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.














This is the word
The phrase "This is the word" signifies a divine message or revelation. In Hebrew, the term "word" is "dabar," which implies not just a spoken word but an active, dynamic communication from God. It underscores the authority and power of God's message, which is not merely informational but transformational. This phrase sets the stage for the seriousness and divine origin of the message that follows, reminding us that God's word is living and active, as emphasized in Hebrews 4:12.

that came to Jeremiah
The phrase "that came to Jeremiah" indicates the prophetic calling and role of Jeremiah as a recipient of divine revelation. Jeremiah, whose name means "Yahweh exalts," was chosen by God to be a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5). This highlights the personal relationship between God and His prophets, where God communicates His will and purposes through chosen individuals. It also emphasizes the responsibility of the prophet to faithfully deliver God's message to the people.

from the LORD
"From the LORD" identifies the source of the message as Yahweh, the covenant-keeping God of Israel. The use of "LORD" in all capital letters in English translations represents the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, the sacred and personal name of God. This underscores the divine authority and authenticity of the message. It is a reminder of God's sovereignty and His ongoing involvement in the affairs of His people, fulfilling His promises and executing His plans.

in the days of Jehoiakim
The phrase "in the days of Jehoiakim" provides a historical context for the message. Jehoiakim was a king of Judah who reigned from 609 to 598 BC. His reign was marked by political turmoil and spiritual decline, as he often resisted prophetic messages and aligned with foreign powers contrary to God's will. This context highlights the challenges Jeremiah faced in delivering God's message to a rebellious and wayward nation.

son of Josiah
"Son of Josiah" connects Jehoiakim to his father, King Josiah, who was known for his reforms and efforts to return Judah to the worship of Yahweh. This contrast between father and son underscores the theme of covenant faithfulness versus unfaithfulness. Josiah's legacy of reform and devotion to God stands in stark contrast to Jehoiakim's disobedience, serving as a reminder of the importance of godly leadership and the impact of one's spiritual legacy.

king of Judah
The title "king of Judah" situates the narrative within the southern kingdom of Judah, the remnant of the once-united Israelite monarchy. Judah's kings were expected to lead the nation in covenant faithfulness to God. However, many, like Jehoiakim, failed in this duty, leading to national decline and eventual exile. This phrase serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of turning away from God's covenant and the need for leaders who uphold His statutes and commands.

XXXV.

(1) In the days Jehoiakim.--The prophecy that follows carries us back over a period of about seventeen of years to the earlier period of the prophet's life and work. Jerusalem was not yet besieged. Jehoiakim had not filled up the measure of his iniquities. The armies of the Chaldaeans were, however, in the meantime moving on the outskirts of the kingdom of Judah (Jeremiah 35:11) or were driving the nomad inhabitants, who had hitherto dwelt in tents, to take refuge in the cities. The first capture of the city by Nebuchadnezzar was in B.C. 607.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This is the word
הַדָּבָ֛ר (had·dā·ḇār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

that
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

came
הָיָ֥ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to
אֶֽל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Jeremiah
יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ (yir·mə·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3414: Jeremiah -- 'Yah loosens', the name of a number of Israelites

from the LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

in the days
בִּימֵ֨י (bî·mê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of Jehoiakim
יְהוֹיָקִ֧ים (yə·hō·w·yā·qîm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3079: Jehoiakim -- 'the LORD raises up', three Israelites

son
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Josiah
יֹאשִׁיָּ֛הוּ (yō·šî·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2977: Josiah -- 'Yah supports', two Israelites

king
מֶ֥לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Judah:
יְהוּדָ֖ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites


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