“The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,”
The narrative 'The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim' dates this episode to an earlier period than Zedekiah's reign. The Rechabites' story serves as a foil to Judah's covenant infidelity.
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