Jeremías 35:15

15 Además, no he dejado de enviarles a mis siervos, los profetas, para decirles: ‘Conviértanse ya de su mal camino, enmienden sus acciones y no sigan a otros dioses para servirlos; entonces habitarán en la tierra que yo les he dado a ustedes y a sus antepasados’. Pero ustedes no me han prestado atención; no me han hecho caso.

Jeremías 35:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets
One after another, ever since the times of Moses, to explain and enforce the laws given; a circumstance not to be observed in the case of the Rechabites; who yet, without such intimations, kept the charge their father gave them: rising up early, and sending [them];
see ( Jeremiah 7:13 ) ( 11:7 ) ; saying, return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your
doings, and go not after other gods to serve them;
all which were of a moral nature, and what were in themselves just and fit to be done; that they should repent of their sins, refrain from them, and reform their lives, and abstain from idolatry, and worship the one only living and true God, which was but their reasonable service; whereas abstinence from wine, enjoined the Rechabites, was an indifferent thing, neither morally good nor evil; and yet they obeyed their father in it, and when they had not that advantage by it, as is next promised these people: and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your
fathers:
a land flowing with milk and honey; and in which they might build houses, plant vineyards, sow fields, and possess them; which the Rechabites might not do: but ye have not inclined your ear, and hearkened unto me;
they did not listen to his precepts, nor obey them; they would not so much as give them the hearing, and much less the doing.

Jeremías 35:15 In-Context

13 «Así dice el SEÑORTodopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: “Ve y dile a toda la gente de Judá y Jerusalén: ¿No pueden aprender esta lección, y obedecer mis palabras? —afirma el SEÑOR—.

14 Los descendientes de Jonadab hijo de Recab han cumplido con la orden de no beber vino, y hasta el día de hoy no lo beben porque obedecen lo que su antepasado les ordenó. En cambio ustedes, aunque yo les he hablado en repetidas ocasiones, no me han hecho caso.

15 Además, no he dejado de enviarles a mis siervos, los profetas, para decirles: ‘Conviértanse ya de su mal camino, enmienden sus acciones y no sigan a otros dioses para servirlos; entonces habitarán en la tierra que yo les he dado a ustedes y a sus antepasados’. Pero ustedes no me han prestado atención; no me han hecho caso.

16 Los descendientes de Jonadab hijo de Recab cumplieron la orden dada por su antepasado; en cambio, este pueblo no me obedece”.

17 »Por eso, así dice el SEÑOR, Dios Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: “Voy a enviar contra Judá y contra todos los habitantes de Jerusalén todas las calamidades que ya les he anunciado, porque les hablé y no me obedecieron; los llamé y no me respondieron”».