Jeremiah 35:6

The Rechabites refuse, citing their forefather Jonadab's command to drink no wine. Their obedience to an ancestral vow is firm.

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• 1 Chr 2:55and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
• Luke 1:15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
• 2 Kgs 10:15When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,
• Judg 13:14She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
• Lev 10:9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.
• Judg 13:7But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
• Exod 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Ps 105:12When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
• Lev 23:42–43You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
• Eph 6:2–3“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
• Gen 36:7For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.
• Jer 35:10But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
• 2 Kgs 10:23Next, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”
• Gen 25:27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
• Neh 8:14–16And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
• Num 6:2–5“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
• 1 Chr 16:19When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
• 1 Cor 7:26–31Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
• Heb 11:9–13By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

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