034:022 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return
to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it,
and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah
a desolation, without inhabitant.
035:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
035:002 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring
them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers,
and give them wine to drink.
035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah,
and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites;
035:004 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber
of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God,
which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above
the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper
of the threshold.
035:005 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls
full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.
035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine,
neither you, nor your sons, forever:
035:007 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard,
nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents;
that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
035:008 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all
our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
035:009 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard,
nor field, nor seed:
035:010 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according
to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
035:011 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem
for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army
of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
035:012 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
035:013 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you
not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh.
035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded
his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day
they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment:
but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking;
and you have not listened to me.
035:015 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you
now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings,
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