John Trapp on Jeremiah 35:9

Ver. 9. Nor to build houſes, &c.] Jonadab, being a prudent and withal a mortified man, might foreſee that the Iſraelites, being ſo wicked a people, could not long continue. He knew alſo that wine was oft an occaſion of drunkenneſs; trading in the world, of earthlimindedneſs; fair houſes, of lothneſs to leave the world: Haec ſunt quae nos invitos faciunt mori, as that Emperour once ſaid of ſtately buildings. He therefore, for a quiet life, and for their ſouls health, forbad them the uſe of theſe lawful things: and they accordingly forbare them.