Jeremiah Chapter 35 verse 19 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 35:19

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
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BBE Jeremiah 35:19

For this reason the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, will never be without a man to take his place before me.
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DARBY Jeremiah 35:19

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, There shall not fail to Jonadab the son of Rechab a man to stand before me, for ever.
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KJV Jeremiah 35:19

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
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WEB Jeremiah 35:19

therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.
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YLT Jeremiah 35:19

therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Of Jonadab son of Rechab one standing before me is not cut off all the days.'
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Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.--Taking the words in their simplest literal sense, they find a fulfilment in the strange unlooked-for way in which the name and customs of the Rechabites have cropped up from time to time. The Jewish historian Hegesippus (see Euseb. Hist. Eccl. ii. 23), in his account of the martyrdom of James the Just, names the sons of the Rechabites as looking on in reverential sympathy with one whose life, like their own, carried the Nazarite type to its highest perfection. In the account which Diodorus Siculns (xix. 94) gives of the Nabathaeans as neither sowing seed, nor planting fruit-trees, nor building houses, and enforcing this rule of life under pain of death, we can scarcely fail to recognise the Rechabite type. Benjamin of Tudela, in the twelfth century, reports that he found 100,000 Jews who were named Rechabites, and who lived after their fashion near El Jubar, and that they were governed by a prince of the house of David. More recent travellers, Dr. Wolff (Journal, 1829, ii. 334; 1839, p. 389) and Signor Pierotti (Transactions of British Association, 1862), report that they have met tribes near Mecca, on the Dead Sea, or in Yemen and Senaar, who observed the rule of Jonadab, claimed to be his descendants, referred to Jeremiah 35:19 as fulfilled in them, and led the life of devout Jews. It is probable, however, that in these later instances we may trace the effect of the Wahabee ascetic movement among the Mahomedan Arabs, identifying its rule with the old practice of the son of Rechab (Burckhardt: Bedouins and Wahabys, p. 283).The words "stand before" have, however, in Hebrew a distinct secondary meaning. It was a definitely liturgical expression for the ministrations of the Levites who were chosen to "stand before" the Lord (Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 18:5; Deuteronomy 18:7), and a like meaning is prominent in Jeremiah 7:10; Jeremiah 15:19; Genesis 18:22; Judges 20:28; Psalm 134:1. The Targum of this passage, indeed, actually gives "ministering before me" as its paraphrase. The natural inference would be that the Rechabites were by these words admitted, in virtue of their Nazarite character, to serve as Levites in the Temple--to be, in fact, a higher class of Nethinim (see Notes on 1Chronicles 9:2; Ezra 2:43)--and this view is confirmed (1) by the fact that the LXX. ascribes Psalms 71 to "the sons of Jonadab, the first that were led captive;" (2) that a son of Rechab is associated in Nehemiah 3:14 with priests and Levites and nobles in repairing the walls of Jerusalem; (3) in 1Chronicles 2:55 the Rechabites have become scribes, and in the Vulgate (evidence of a Jewish tradition as to the meaning of the words), the proper names of the English version, "Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites," which add nothing to our knowledge, are represented by "canentes et resonantes et in tabernaculis commorantes" ("singing, and playing instruments, and dwelling in tents"), which unite the functions of Levites with the mode of life of the Rechabites. So Hegesippus (as above) speaks of priests who were of the sons of Rechab in the Apostolic age. . . . Parallel Commentaries ...Hebrewthis is whatכֹּ֥ה (kōh)AdverbStrong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, nowthe LORDיְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israelof Hosts,צְבָא֖וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ)Noun - common pluralStrong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaignthe Godאֱלֹהֵ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hê)Noun - masculine plural constructStrong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlativeof Israel,יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his descsays:אָמַ֛ר (’ā·mar)Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 559: To utter, sayJonadabלְיוֹנָדָ֧ב (lə·yō·w·nā·ḏāḇ)Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 3122: Jonadabsonבֶּן־ (ben-)Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 1121: A sonof Rechabרֵכָ֛ב (rê·ḵāḇ)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 7394: Rechab -- perhaps 'band of riders', a Benjamite, also the head of a nomadic familywill neverלֹֽא־ (lō-)Adverb - Negative particleStrong's 3808: Not, nofail to haveיִכָּרֵ֨ת (yik·kā·rêṯ)Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenanta manאִ֜ישׁ (’îš)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 376: A man as an individual, a male personto standעֹמֵ֥ד (‘ō·mêḏ)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularStrong's 5975: To stand, in various relationsbefore Me.’”לְפָנַ֖י (lə·p̄ā·nay)Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singularStrong's 6440: The faceJump to PreviousAlmighty Always Armies Cut Forever Hosts Israel Jonadab Jon'adab Lack Recab Rechab Stand Standing Want