build. This was as essential as the former injunction.
live many days, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:12). App-92.
in the land. on the soil.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 35:7
Jeremiah 35:7
7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.