The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971. The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on AlfredRahlfs' Septuaginta, differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition.
Hebrew, Vulgate, English
Rahlfs' LXX
35:1-19
42:1-19
28:1-17
35:1-17
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 35 contains the "Fourteenth prophecy" in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life . : open parashah.
Verse 1
This chapter is out of the chronological order of chapter 32-34 and 37-44, as it records the events during the reign of king Jehoiakim. According to Weippert, "the phrases found in the chapter are characteristic of Jeremiah." Huey maintains that it is not "misplaced by accident or through a redactor's ignorance of the chronology of events", but perhaps to "emphasis that Judah's disobedience... had begun much earlier than the closing years of Zedekiah's reign." When Egyptians decided to fight the Babylonians in Palestine, Nebuchadnezzar temporarily lifted the siege on Jerusalem, raiding other areas in Judah instead, which drove the Rechabites to Jerusalem for safety during that period. Calmet suggests that "it was not till the latter end of Jehoiakim’s reign that the Rechabites were driven into the city".
Verse 18
"The house of the Rechabites": A close knit descendants of the Kenites known from the story of Jehonadab the son of Rechab, who helped Jehu purging the Baal prophets from Samaria. The Rechabites lived as nomads, rejecting all forms of urban and agrarian life, and refused to drink wine or strong drink and would not cultivate vineyards nor plant any other crops. The complete obedience of the Rechabites is "outlined in a triad of verbs: obeyed... kept... done".
Verse 19
"Stand before Me": an expression found over 100 times in the Old Testament means "to stand before someone with an attitude of service," used of priests, kings or prophets. The Septuagint has the closing as παραἵστημι κατά πρόσωπον ἐγώ πᾶς ὁ ἡμέρα ὁ γῆ . notes that "Malchijah the son of Rechab... repaired the Refuse Gate; he built it and hung its doors with its bolts and bars", cooperating to restore the wall of Jerusalem, approximately 150 years later.
