Jeremiah 35:1-11
The Obedience of the Rechabites
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of aJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 2“Go to the house of the bRechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of cthe chambers; then offer them wine to drink.” 3So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites. 4I brought them to the house of the Lord into dthe chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, ethe man of God, which was near fthe chamber of the officials, above gthe chamber of hMaaseiah the son of Shallum, ikeeper of the threshold. 5Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.” 6But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for jJonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever. 7You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, kthat you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’ 8We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, 9and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed, 10but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 11But lwhen Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of mthe army of the Chaldeans and nthe army of the Syrians.’ oSo we are living in Jerusalem.”
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