Bible Strands
Jeremiah 35:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD delivers a prophetic directive to Jeremiah during the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah. This opening anchors the subsequent command to visit the Rechabites in a specific royal chronology.
The words — הַדָּבָר (ha.davar) means "the word," and בִּימֵי (bi.yemei) translates to "in the days of." These terms establish the divine origin of the message and fix it to a precise historical period.
The thread — This chronological formula appears in Jeremiah 1:3 and Jeremiah 25:1 to mark prophetic periods under Jehoiakim, while 2 Kings 23:35 records the king’s political and financial actions during the same era.
Why it lands — The verse requires recognition that divine instruction arrives within concrete historical circumstances rather than abstract time. It demands the reader treat recorded prophecy as grounded in specific leadership and national context.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 23:35 So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
- Jeremiah 1:3 and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
- Jeremiah 25:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
- 2 Kings 24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
- 2 Chronicles 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
- Jeremiah 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Jeremiah 26:1 At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:
- Jeremiah 36:1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
- Jeremiah 36:9 Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 36:29 You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’