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Are performed – Are established, that is, are maintained in full force.
To this day – that is, for more than 200 years.

Here Jeremiah applies the example which he had related, for what follows is God’s complaint—that He was less regarded by His people than Jonadab wa…

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his
sons, not to drink wine, are performed

The trial of the Rechabites' constancy was for a sign; it made the disobedience of the Jews to God the more marked. The Rechabites were obedient to…

Here, their disobedience is condemned. This is shown in two ways:
First, different merits are compared as God expresses …
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes