Jeremiah 35:2-8

²“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”

³So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons — the entire house of the Rechabites —

⁴and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

⁵Then I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, “Drink some wine.”

⁶“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.

⁷Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’

⁸And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives— neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

— Jeremiah 35:2-8

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Cross References for Jeremiah 35:2-8

• 1 Chronicles 2:55
• Deuteronomy 33:1
• Jeremiah 35:10
• Ephesians 6:2-3
• Nehemiah 8:14-16
• 2 Chronicles 8:14
• Genesis 25:27
• Luke 1:15
• Colossians 3:20
• 1 Chronicles 9:26

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