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Jer. 35:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

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Jonadab.

2 Kings 10:15• ¹⁵And he departed thence, and found Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab said, It is.--If it be, give me thy hand.--And he gave him his hand; and Jehu took him up to him into the chariot, (2 Kings 10:15)

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1 Chron. 2:55• ⁵⁵and the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez: the Tireathites, the Shimeathites, the Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. (1 Chron. 2:55)

Ye shall.Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2 Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them.

In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers."

And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed.

In 1 Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments.

Lev. 10:9• ⁹Thou shalt not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, lest ye die--it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations, (Lev. 10:9)

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Num. 6:2‑5• ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If a man or a woman have vowed the special vow of a Nazarite, to consecrate themselves to Jehovah;
³he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, nor vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat grapes, fresh or dried.
⁴All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine, from the seed-stones, even to the skin.
⁵All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, that he hath consecrated himself to Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. (Num. 6:2‑5)

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Judg. 13:7,14• ⁷And he said to me, Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son; and now drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not anything unclean; for the boy shall be a Nazarite of God from the womb to the day of his death.
¹⁴she shall not eat of anything that cometh of the vine, neither shall she drink wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean: all that I commanded her shall she observe. (Judg. 13:7,14)

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Luke 1:15• ¹⁵For he shall be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. (Luke 1:15)

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1 Cor. 7:26‑31• ²⁶I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.
²⁷Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.
²⁸But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.
²⁹But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:
³⁰and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;
³¹and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes. (1 Cor. 7:26‑31)

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Jer. 35:10• ¹⁰but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. (Jer. 35:10)

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Gen. 25:27• ²⁷And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents. (Gen. 25:27)

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Lev. 23:42‑43• ⁴²In booths shall ye dwell seven days; all born in Israel shall dwell in booths;
⁴³that your generations may know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. (Lev. 23:42‑43)

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Neh. 8:14‑16• ¹⁴And they found written in the law which Jehovah had commanded through Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month,
¹⁵and that they should publish and proclaim through all their cities, and at Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive-branches, and wild olive-branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
¹⁶And the people went forth and brought them, and made themselves booths, everyone upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the open space of the water-gate, and in the open space of the gate of Ephraim. (Neh. 8:14‑16)

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Heb. 11:9‑13• ⁹By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
¹⁰for he waited for the city which has foundations, of which God is the artificer and constructor.
¹¹By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.
¹²Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.
¹³All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. (Heb. 11:9‑13)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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Gen. 36:7• ⁷For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle. (Gen. 36:7)

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Ex. 20:12• ¹²Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. (Ex. 20:12)

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1 Chron. 16:19• ¹⁹When ye were a few men in number, Of small account, and strangers in it. (1 Chron. 16:19)

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Psa. 105:12• ¹²When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it. (Psa. 105:12)

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Eph. 6:2‑3• ²Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
³that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth. (Eph. 6:2‑3)

J. N. Darby Translation

And they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, ye nor your sons for ever;