Jeremiah 35:10
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New International Version (©2011)
We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab commanded us.

New Living Translation (©2007)
We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed all the commands of Jehonadab, our ancestor.

English Standard Version (©2001)
but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done as our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.

International Standard Version (©2012)
We have lived in tents. We have obeyed and have done everything that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.

NET Bible (©2006)
We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
We live in tents, and we have obeyed everything our ancestor Jonadab ordered us to do.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

American King James Version
But we have dwelled in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

American Standard Version
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Darby Bible Translation
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

English Revised Version
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Webster's Bible Translation
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

World English Bible
but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Young's Literal Translation
and we dwell in tents, and we hearken, and we do according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

35:1-11 Jonadab was famous for wisdom and piety. He lived nearly 300 years before, 2Ki 10:15. Jonadab charged his posterity not to drink wine. He also appointed them to dwell in tents, or movable dwelling: this would teach them not to think of settling any where in this world. To keep low, would be the way to continue long in the land where they were strangers. Humility and contentment are always the best policy, and men's surest protection. Also, that they might not run into unlawful pleasures, they were to deny themselves even lawful delights. The consideration that we are strangers and pilgrims should oblige us to abstain from all fleshly lusts. Let them have little to lose, and then losing times would be the less dreadful: let them sit loose to what they had, and then they might with less pain be stript of it. Those are in the best frame to meet sufferings who live a life of self-denial, and who despise the vanities of the world. Jonadab's posterity observed these rules strictly, only using proper means for their safety in a time of general suffering.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But we have dwelt in tents,.... Ever since, until very lately, when they had taken up their dwelling in Jerusalem; the reason of which is presently given:

and have obeyed, and done according to all Jonadab our father commanded us; and should it be objected, that in one point they had not obeyed, in that they had left their tents, and now dwelt in Jerusalem; they had this to say in answer to it, and as the reason of their so doing, as follows:

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Obedience of the Rechabites
…9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: 10But we have dwelled in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 11But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 35:6 But they replied, "We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab gave us this command: 'Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.
Jeremiah 35:7 Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.'