Bible in Basic English
"But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do."
— Jeremiah 35:10, Bible in Basic English
“But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.”
“but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. ”
“but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.”
And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.
And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;
Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:
But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.
But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.