Jeremiah 35:9

Modern

Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

Traditional

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

Literal

…and so as not to build houses for our dwelling, and not is unto us a vineyard or field or seed.

Latin

…et non ædificaremus domos ad habitandum: et vineam, et agrum, et sementem non habuimus:

Hebrew

English

Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

Jehonadab had required his descendants to live a nomadic life without the comforts of settled living, and the Recabites had obeyed.

The Recabites obeyed their ancestor, while the Israelites rebelled against the Lord, their God.

Here are examples of the faithless (those who break the covenant) (Jeremiah 34:8–22) and the faithful (those who keep the covenant) (35:1–19).

These two chapters reflect on events from twenty years ago when Jehoiakim was king.

1 Timothy 6:6
Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
Psalm 37:16
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
Jeremiah 35:7
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
Numbers 16:14
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
2 Kings 5:26
But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?