Jeremiah 35

Jeremiah 35
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Book of Jeremiah in Hebrew Bible, MS Sassoon 1053, images 283-315.
Book	Book of Jeremiah
Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Bible part	24
Category	Nevi'im

Jeremiah 35 is the thirty-fifth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah 42 in Septuagint. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter records the meeting of Jeremiah with the Rechabites, a nomadic family, to "contrast their faithfulness to the commands of a dead ancestor with the faithlessness of the people of Judah to the commands of a living God."

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

This chapter (and also chapter 36) is out of the chronological order of chapter 32-34 and 37-44, as it records the events during the reign of king Jehoiakim (609-598 BC). According to Weippert, "the phrases found in the chapter are characteristic of Jeremiah." Huey maintains that it is not "misplaced by accident or through a redactor's ignorance of the chronology of events", but perhaps to "emphasis that Judah's disobedience ... had begun much earlier than the closing years of Zedekiah's reign." When Egyptians decided to fight the Babylonians in Palestine, Nebuchadnezzar temporarily lifted the siege on Jerusalem, raiding other areas in Judah instead (660-598 SM), which drove the Rechabites to Jerusalem for safety during that period.

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.

The order of CATSS based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs edition (=CATSS).