10 But we have remained in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to [a]all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel came up into the land, we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem, from the host of the Chaldeans, and from the host of Aram: so we [b]dwell at Jerusalem.

12 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 35:10 Which was now for the space of three hundred years from Jehu to Jehoiakim.
  2. Jeremiah 35:11 Which declareth that they were not so bound to their vow, that it could not be broken for any necessity: for where they were commanded to dwell in tents, they dwell now at Jerusalem for fear of the wars.

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