Jeremiah 35:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Jeremiah 35:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Psalms 37:16
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Jeremiah 35:7
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
2 Kings 5:26
And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
Numbers 16:14
Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

This chapter is of an earlier date than many of those before; for what is contained in it was said and done in the days of Jehoiakim (Jer. 35:1); but then it must be in the latter part of his reign, for it was after the king of Babylon with his army came up into the land (Jer. 35:11), which seems to refer to the invasion mentioned 2 Kgs. 24:2; which was upon occasion of Jehoiakim’s rebelling again…