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 2:55The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the 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, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
• 2 Kgs 10:15When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
• Judg 13:14She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
• Lev 10:9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
• Judg 13:7but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
• Exod 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Ps 105:12when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
• Lev 23:42–43You shall dwell in temporary shelters seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Eph 6:2–3“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
• Gen 36:7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
• Jer 35:10but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
• 2 Kgs 10:23Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
• Gen 25:27The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
• Neh 8:14–16They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
• Num 6:2–5“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
• 1 Chr 16:19when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
• 1 Cor 7:26–31I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
• Heb 11:9–13By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

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