Jeremias 35:8

8 The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.

Jeremias 35:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 35:8

Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our
father
The above was the charge he gave them; and this, in every article of it, they had carefully and constantly kept, though it had been for the space of three hundred years, or thereabout; as follows: in all he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our
wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
which was the first of the precepts he gave them: and which they were now tempted to disregard, but were resolved to observe it, as they had hitherto done. The rest of the articles follow.

Jeremias 35:8 In-Context

6 and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm thy word which thou dost prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.

7 Nevertheless hear ye the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people.

8 The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.

9 the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come , they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in truth.

10 Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.