carth x- | x God doth not threaten all the Jews, bur thoſe only, who had made this Covenant, and fermally confirmed ir, by killing a Beaſt, and paſſing through the parts of it thus divided, and laid oppoſite one to another. Of theſe he ſpareth none bur threatens both the King, and Nobles and great Courriers, as well as the People, char .he would give them into the hand of their Enemies that thirſted after their .Blood, they fhould be ſlain, and their dead Bodies
ſhould nor be buried, Herein the Righteouſneſs of God appeared |
by doing to them as they defired (by paſſing betwixr the Calf) thar God would do in caſe they did nor keep to the promiſe they | had made, and called God to witneſs, and challenging him to de-. firoy them if they did not fulfil whar they covenanced for.
21 And Zedckiah king of Judah, and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that ſeek their lite; and 1nto the hand of the king of Babylon's army * which are gone up from you y.. :
y Here is nothing in this Verſe, but what was ſaid before, fave only in the laſt clauſe, where mention is made of the King of Ba- byton's Army which was gone up from rhem, the occaſion of which we ſhall meer with Chap. 37. 5. becauſe there was an Army came out of Egypt ro aſlift the Jews,
22 Behold, I will command, faith the L O R D, and cauſe them to return to this city z, and they ſhall fight againſt ir, and take it, and burn it with fire, and I will makethe cities of Judah a deſolation
without an Inhabitant.
z F will purit into their hearrs to return ſaith the L ord, and they ſhall come back again to the Siege, and ſha!l riſe up no more vill they have taken the City and burned it with fire,and made the whole Country deſolate. The motions of Armies are under the Government of Divine Providence,they arc all atGods 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 ſhallread of the fulfilling of this Pro-
phecy. CH A P. XXXV.
M 1 A H
| 4 And 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 c, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the cham-
ber of Maaſeiah the ſon of Shallum, the keeper of . Het .
the -|- door 4.
This rerm, the man of Goda, doth in ſcripture Gonif Y [phet ſometimes, bur whether it ſo Genifieth dane 5 IF ir Fw
; whether it relaterh ro Tedaliab or Hananis a queſtion. &4Pro-
bably by the Chamber of the Princes is meant ſome Chamber where the Princes were wont to meet in a Court, or fora Countel : thither Jeremiah brings theſe Rechabites , and ſers Veſſels of Wane before them, not commanding them to drink it bur only inviting them, ;
5 And I ſet before the ſons of the houſe of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I ſaid unto them, Drink ye wine _
6 But they ſaid we will drink no wine: for Jo- nadab the ſon of Rechab our father e commanded us, faying, ye ſhall drink no wine, zeither ye, nor your ſons for ever f. |
e Tr 15 uncertain whether Father here ſignifies their immediate
By the Obedience of the Rechabires, 1, 11, God condemn- eth the Tews Obedience, 12, ——— 17, The Rechabites are bleſ- - yea, 18, I9.
[ HE word whichcame unto Jeremiah from the L O RD, in the days of Jehaiakim the fon of Joſiah king of Judah, ſaying 4,
4 This is another evidence that the Prophecies of this Book are not left us in thar order wherein they were dehivered,for rhoſe which we had in the tivo or three foregoing Chaprers being in the time of Zedebiah muſt needs be ten or eleven years after this.
2 Gountro the houſe of the Rechabites, and ſpeak unto them, aad bring them into the houſe of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink 6,
b Theſe Rechabites chad their name from Rechab their Father,
who as appears from x Chron.2, $5. deſcended from Hemath, who was a Kenite, who 1s alſo called Hobab, Jud. 4.11. (anleſs, it may be, Hameth who was the Son of Hobab.) This Hobab was Jech10 the Father-1n-Law of Afoſes, as appears from Jud. 4. r1. We read ]44d. 1. 16. That is his children went up out of the City of Palm-trees, with the chilaren of Judah, which lyeth in the South of Arad, and they went, aud dwelt among the People, The Rechabites here mentioned deſcended from this Srock. Jehona- dab mentioned 2 King. 10. 15. was of this Family, a Man of ſome note, as appeareth by Je his taking him there into his Charriot. God commandeth the Propher to bring ſome of this Family into the Temple, into ſome of the Chambers (for in and about the Temple were ſeveral Chambers of the Prieſts,and where they diſpoſed of the Holy Garments and ſeveral Oblations, r King, 6. 5, 6,10, 1 Chron 28, 11, 12.) God commands Jeremiah ro bring theſe Rechabires into ſome of theſe Chambers, and to ſer wine before them, This was either for the more publickneſs of the thing, Or 1t may be for the reproof of the Prieſts who drank roo much Wine,
3 ThenIT took Jaazaniah, the ſon of Jeremiah, the ſon of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his ſons, and the whole houſe of the Rechabites.
Parent, or (which 1s more probable) their Progenitor z it is moiF likely it referrerh ro thar Jon2445 of whom we read, 2 King.:o.18. who was the Father (that is the Progenitor of this Family of che Rechabitss, at 3oo Years diftance, ) j The reaſon why he lete his Poſterity this charge 1s uncertain, probably ro warn them againſt the Luxury which he ſaw began to abound in 1/22/, and 5eing de- firous that they ſhould inure themſelves ts a more hardy and la- bortous Life ; being ordinarily K-nitzr, and uſed tro Husbandry, and keeping of Sheep and orher Cattle, he deſired they ſhould hve according to their Quality.
7 Neither ſhall ye build houſe, nor ſow ſeed, nor plant vineyard, nor have 2zy ; but. all your days ye ſhall dwell 1n tents, that ye may live many days 1a the land where ye be ſtrangers s.