x God doth not threaten all the Jews, but thoſe only, who had made this Covenant, and formally confirmed it, by killing a Beaſt, and paſſing rhrough the parts of it thus divided, and laid oppoſite one to another. Of thoſe he ſpareth none but threatens both the King and Nobles and great Courtiers,as well as the People. That he would give them into the hand of their Enemies that thirſted af- rer their blood, they ſhould be ſlain, and their dead Bodies ſhould notbe burried. Herein the Righteouſneſs of God appeared, by do- ing to them as they deſired ( by paſſing betwixt the Calf ) that God would do in caſe they did not keep ro the promiſe they hade made, and called God ro witneſs. and challenging him to deſtroy them if they did not fuifi!l what they covenant for.
21 And Zedekiah king of Juc a, and his princes will I give into the hand of their e .emies, and into the hand of them that ſeek their lite ; and into the hand of che king of Babylons army * which are gone up from
OU Y}. : y " is nothing in this Verſe, but what was ſaid before, ſave only in the laſt Clauſe, where mention 1s made of the King of Ba- bylm's Army which was gone up from them, the occaſion of which we ſhall meet with Chap: 37: 5, becauſe there was an army came out of Egypt to aſſiſt the Jews. ;
22 Behold, I will command, ſaith the LORD and cauſe them to return to this city z, and they ſhall fight againſt it, and take it, and burn it with fire, and T will make the cities of Judah a deſolation without an inha- bitant.
z I will put it into their Hearts to return ſaith the Lord,and they ſhall come back again to the Seige, and ſhall riſe up no more till they have taken the Ciry and burned it with fire,and made the whole Country deſolate.The motions of Armies areunder the Goverment of Divine Providence,they are at Gods Command ; when he bids them come they come, what he bids them do they do, and ſhall certainly effe& what God hath determined. When we come to Chap: 39. we ſhall read of the fulfilling of this Prophecy.
CHAP. XXXV. By the Obedience of the Rechabites, 1 11+ God condemneth the
Jews Obedience, 12 17. The Rechabites are bleſſed, 18,
Ig. 3, :
TY word which came unto Jeremiah from the. LORD, in the days of Jehoiakim, the ſon of Joſiah king of Judah, ſaying #. ;
s This is another evidence that the Prophecies of this Book are notleftus in that order wherein they were delivered,for thoſe which we had in the two or three foregoing Chapters being in the time of Zedekiah muſt needs be ten or eleven Years after this.
2 Go unto the houſe of the Rechabites, and ſpeak unto them,and bring them into the houſe of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink b. :
b Theſe Rechabites had their Name from Rechab their Father,who as appears from 1 Chron.2. 55, deſc:nded from Hemath, who was a Kentte, who is alſo called Hobab, Jud; 4- 11. (unleſs-irt may be Hameth who was the Son of Hebab. ) This Hobab was Jethro the Father in Law of Moſes, as appears from Jud: 4. tt, we read Jud; 1. 16, Fhat his Children went up Out of the City of Palm-rrees, with the Chilaren
* Chap. 7. 33+ and 16.4.
* Chap. 33-100
EF REMI 4a,
| "GEE = Chap. XXX) of Judah; which lieth in the South of Arad, and they went, and dwelt a« | mo0rg the People, The Rechabites here mentioned deſcended from this Stock. Jehonadab mentioned, 2 King: 10. 15. was of this Family, a Man of ſome note, 2s appeareth by Jehu his taking him there into h's Chariot, God commandeth the Prophet to bring ſome of this Family into the Temple, into ſome of the Chambers { for in and abour the Temple were ſeveral Chambers,f. r the Prieſts. and where they diſpoſed of the Holy Sarments and ſeveral Oblations, 1 Kings
6: 5, 6, 10, 1 Chron. 28: 11. 12.) God commands Jer:miah to brin theſe Rechabites into ſome cf theſe Chambers and fo ſer wine befive them. This waseitber for the morepublickneſs of the thing, or
ir may be for the reproof of the Prieſts who drank too much
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3 Then I took Jaazaniah, . the ſon of Jeremiah, the ſon of Habaziniah, and his brethren; and all his ſons and the whole houſe of the Rechabites.
4 And I brought them into the houſe of the LORD, into the chamber of the ſons of Hanan, the ſon of \\t|'Þ Igdaliah a man of God c,which was by the chamber of Wl} the princes, which was abLove the chamber of Maafeiah . | "IF the {on of Shallum, the keeper of the + door d. + Hebs || if & This term, the man of Go1, doth in Scriprere ſignifie a Prophet threſhold... " ſometimes, bur whether ir ſo ſignifieth here,and 1f ir doth, whether or wveſ#| 4 | it relateth to 1z1aliah or Hanan is a queſtion. 4 Probab!y by the WIN: Cnamber of the Princes is meant ſome Chamber where the Princes were wont ro meet in a Court, or for Counſel, Thither Jeremiah brings theſe Rechabites, and ſets Veſſels of Wine before them, not commanding them to drink it, but only inviting rhem,
5 And [ ſer before the ſons of the houſe of the Rec-
habites pots full of wine,and cups,and I ſaid unto.them, Drink ye wine.
6 But they ſaid, we will drink no wine : for Jonadab the ſon of Rechab ourftather e commanded us, ſaying, Ye ”Y drink no wine, neither ye, nor your ſons for ever f.
e Ic is nncertain whether Father here ſignifies their immediat P2- rent, or ( which is more Probable) their Progenitor 3 it is moſt likely ifrefereth to that Jonadab of whom we read » Kings 10: 18, who was the Father ( thar is the Progenitor of this Family of rhe Rechabites, at 3os Years diſtance.) f The reaſon why he lef: his Poſterity this charge is uncertain, probably ro warn them agai:ſt the Luxury which he ſaw began to abound in 17acl, and being de- fireous, that they ſhould inure themſelves ro a more hardy ana la- borions Life ; being originally K:n;tes, and uſed to Husb:ndry, and keeping of Sheep and other Cattel,he deſired they ſhould live accor- ding to their Quality.
7 Neither ſhail ye build houſe, nor ſow ſeed, nor plant vineyard, nor have ay: but all your days ye ſhall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days in the land where ye be ſtrangers g. |