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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• ¹⁵{i}And 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,{/i} (2 Kings 10:15)

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1 Chron. 2:55• ⁵⁵{i}and 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.{/i} (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 nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, lest ye die: an everlasting statute throughout your generations, (Lev. 10:9)

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Num. 6:2‑5• ²{i}Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them{/i}, when either a man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto Jehovah:
³he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
⁴All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husks.
⁵All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head; {i}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.{/i} (Num. 6:2‑5)

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Judg. 13:7,14• ⁷{i}And 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.{/i}
¹⁴{i}she 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.{/i} (Judg. 13:7,14)

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Luke 1:15• ¹⁵He 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 because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man to be so.
²⁷Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
²⁸But if even thou shouldest have married, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin should have married, she did not sin. But such shall have tribulation in the flesh: but I am sparing you.
²⁹But this I say, brethren, the season is straitened: henceforth that both those that have wives be as having none,
³⁰and those that weep as weeping not, and those that rejoice as rejoicing not, and those that buy as possessing not,
³¹and those that use the world as not using [it] for themselves; for the fashion of the world passeth away. (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 skillful in hunting, a man of the field, and Jacob an upright man dwelling in tents. (Gen. 25:27)

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Lev. 23:42‑43• ⁴²{i}In booths shall ye dwell seven days; all born in Israel shall dwell in booths;{/i}
⁴³{i}that 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.{/i} (Lev. 23:42‑43)

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Neh. 8:14‑16• ¹⁴{i}And 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,{/i}
¹⁵{i}and 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.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And 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.{/i} (Neh. 8:14‑16)

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Heb. 11:9‑13• ⁹By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
¹⁰for he waited for the city that hath the foundations, of which God is architect and master-builder.
¹¹By faith also Sarah herself received power for deposition of seed even beyond season of age, since she counted faithful him that promised.
¹²Wherefore also there were born from one, and that one become dead, even as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand that is by the sea-shore.
¹³All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, 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 the fleshly lusts such as 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• ¹²{i}Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.{/i} (Ex. 20:12)

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

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Psa. 105:12• ¹²When they were even to be numbered as a few,{HR}And sojourners in it; (Psa. 105:12)

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Eph. 6:2‑3• ²Honour thy father and thy mother, which is a commandment first in promise,
³that it may be well for thee, and thou shalt 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;

W. Kelly 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, neither ye nor your sons forever;

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)