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Jeremiah 35:9
Jeremiah 35:9 is verse 9 of Jeremiah chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
King James Version
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
World English Bible
and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;
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Jeremiah 35:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
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.’
8 And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
9 Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
10 But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
11 So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 35:7Nor 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 16:14Moreover, 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 5:26But 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?
Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.