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Jeremiah · read by David Daniel
21 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Jeremiah 17
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This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.Read from KJV · Checking Our Vision!
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He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.Read from KJV · Checking Our Vision!
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But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.Read from KJV · Checking Our Vision!
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He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.Read from KJV · Checking Our Vision!
Jeremiah 35
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This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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"Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine."Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the entire house of the Rechabites—Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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Then I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, "Drink some wine."Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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"We do not drink wine," they replied, "for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, 'Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.Read from NKJV · Choosing to Obey!
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Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.'Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.Read from NKJV · Choosing to Obey!
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So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: 'Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.' So we have remained in Jerusalem."Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: 'Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?' declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.'"Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,Read from KJV · Choosing to Obey!
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this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.'"Read from NKJV · Choosing to Obey!