2 Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, & thou shalt bring them into the house of our Lord, into one chamber of the treasuries, & thou shalt give them wine to drink.📜💬📚

3 And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the son of Habsamias, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.📜💬📚

4 And I brought them into the house of our Lord, to the treasure-house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which was by the treasure-house of the Princes, above the treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.📜💬📚

5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites goblets full of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine.📜💬📚

6 Who answered: We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall not drink wine, you and your children for ever.📜💬📚

7 And you shall not build house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tabernacles all your days, that you may live many days upon the face of the land, wherein you are strangers.📜💬📚

8 We therefore have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so that we drank not any wine all our days: we and our wives, our sons & our daughters.📜💬📚

9 And we builded not houses to inhabit, and vineyard, and field, and seed we have not had:📜💬📚

10 but we have dwelt in tabernacles, and have been obedient according to all things that Jonadab our father commanded us.📜💬📚

11 But when Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon was come up to our Land, we said: Come, and let us go into Jerusalem from the face of the host of the Chaldees, & from the face of the host of Syria: & we have tarried in Jerusalem.📜💬📚

Judah Rebuked

12 And the word of our Lord was made to Jeremy, saying:📜💬📚

13 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, & say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Why will you not receive discipline, to obey my words, saith our Lord?📜💬📚

14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab have prevailed, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine: & they have not drunk until this day, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I have spoken to you, early rising and speaking, and you have not obeyed me.📜💬📚

15 And I have sent to you all my servants the Prophets, rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every one from his most wicked way, and make your studies good: & follow not strange gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in the land which I gave you and your fathers: and you have not inclined your ear, nor heard me.📜💬📚

16 The children therefore of Jonadab the son of Rechab have firmly kept the precept of their father, which he commanded them: but this people hath not obeyed me.📜💬📚

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the affliction which I have spoken against them, because I have spoken to them, and they have not heard: I have called them, and they have not answered me.📜💬📚

18 But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremy said: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: For that you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his commandments, and have done all things, that he commanded you:📜💬📚

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: There shall not want a man of the stock of Jonadab the son of Rechab, standing in my sight all days.📜💬📚

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Jeremiah 35 📜 📕 ↷

Obedience of the Rechabites

Judah Rebuked

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