Jeremiah 35:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

Cross References

Genesis 25:27

And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Genesis 36:7

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

Exodus 20:12

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Jeremiah 35:10

But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.

Jeremiah 35:9

Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

Ephesians 5:18

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

1 Peter 2:11

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;