Jeremiah 34-36 - The Rechabites Listen to Jonadab

Zedekiah to Die in Babylon

Jer 34:14 LSB – [14] "At the end of seven years each of you shall let his Hebrew brother go who has been sold to you and has served you six years, and you shall let him go [to be] free from you; but your fathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

The Rechabites Listen to Jonadab

Jer 35:6 LSB – [6] But they said, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, 'You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.

Yahweh Warns of Judah’s Discipline

Jer 35:18-19 LSB – [18] Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have listened to the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands, and done according to all that he commanded you, [19] therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not have a man cut off from standing before Me always."'"

Jeremiah’s Scroll Read in the Temple

Jer 36:15-16 LSB – [15] And they said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing. [16] Now it happened that when they heard all the words, they turned in dread one to another and said to Baruch, "We will surely declare all these words to the king."

The Scroll Is Burned

Jer 36:23 LSB – [23] And it happened that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, [the king] cut it with a scribe's knife and threw [it] into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

The Scroll Is Replaced

Jer 36:32 LSB – [32] Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.