Jeremiah 35:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The word which came unto Jeremiah in the days of Jehoiakim, &c. Here we have another evidence that the prophecies of this book are not placed in that order wherein they were delivered, for all the intermediate prophecies from chap. 26. belong clearly to the reign of Zedekiah; and consequently are posterior to this chapter and the next, which are dated in the reign of Jehoiakim, together with chap. 45., which is closely connected with the latter of these two Chapter s. This may most probably be referred to the fourth year of Jehoaikim's reign, when Nebuchadnezzar, having beaten the king of Egypt's army at Euphrates, (see Jeremiah 46:2,) marched toward Syria and Palestine, to recover those provinces again which the king of Egypt had conquered, in which expedition he laid siege to Jerusalem.