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Jeremiah 35:17

Jeremiah 35:17
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,.... Provoked by such ill usage:

behold, I will bring upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil that I have…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 35:12-19

The trial of the Rechabites' constancy was intended but for a sign; now here we have the application of it.

I. The Rechabites' observance of their father's charge to them is made use of as an…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the Lord … Israel This accumulation of Divine names (abs. from LXX), though it can scarcely be called strange, is without parallel elsewhere.