Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 35

This is a polyglot biblical text presenting two passages from the Book of Jeremiah in four parallel versions: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (Greek), the Masoretic text (Hebrew), and the Latin Vulgate. The first passage (Jeremiah 35) recounts God's command to Jeremiah to offer wine to the Rechabites, a clan who refuse on the grounds that their ancestor Jonadab ben Rechab forbade them wine, house-building, farming, and settlement permanently — and they have obeyed for generations. God then uses the Rechabites' unwavering filial obedience as a pointed rebuke to Judah, who has repeatedly ignored God's prophets, promising the Rechabites an eternal lineage before God while announcing impending disaster for Jerusalem. The second passage (roughly Jeremiah 28 in the Septuagint numbering) depicts the confrontation between Jeremiah and the false prophet Hananiah, who publicly smashes Jeremiah's symbolic wooden yoke and falsely promises that Babylon's power will be broken within two years; Jeremiah counters that wooden yokes will be replaced with iron ones, and Hananiah dies within the year as divine confirmation of his false prophecy. The distinctive feature of this text is its interlinear/parallel format — likely from a scholarly or devotional polyglot edition — which allows direct comparison of the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English textual traditions side by side, including Strong's concordance numbers in the KJV column.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 35

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