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 families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
• Luke 1:15For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
• 2 Kgs 10:15And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
• Judg 13:14She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
• Lev 10:9Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
• Judg 13:7But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
• Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Ps 105:12When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
• Lev 23:42–43Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
• 1 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Eph 6:2–3Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
• Gen 36:7For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
• Jer 35:10But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
• 2 Kgs 10:23And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
• Gen 25:27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
• Neh 8:14–16And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
• Num 6:2–5Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
• 1 Chr 16:19When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
• 1 Cor 7:26–31I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
• Heb 11:9–13By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

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