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Then, as he was leaving the place, he met Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, who came to meet him. And he [Jehu] greeted him and asked him, "Is your heart right [are you with me], as my heart is with your heart?"
And Jehonadab answered, "Yes, it is."
"Then give me your hand." [Either Jehonadav's or Jehu's words to take his hand on this, see .] And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him in the chariot.
And Jehu and Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal, and he said to the worshippers of Baal, "Search and see that there is no servant of the Lord (Yahweh) among you, but only worshippers of Baal."
But they said, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, 'You and your sons shall never drink wine.
And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadav, the son of Rechav, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,
And we have lived in tents and have listened and done everything that Jonadav, our father, commanded us.
The words of Jonadab, son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, have been obeyed, and to this day they do not drink, for they have listened to their father's command. But I have spoken to you, I have risen up and spoken (alternative translation: spoken many times and often), but you have not listened to me.
Because the sons of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, have kept the commandment of their father that he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me,
And to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah says: Thus says the Lord of hosts (Yahweh Sebaot), the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of your father Jonadab and kept (guarded, protected, preserved) all his commandments (clear commands) and done according to all that he commanded you,
therefore, says the Lord of hosts (Yahweh Sebaot), the God of Israel (Elohim): There shall never be cut off from Jonadab, the son of Rechab, a descendant who stands before me every day (forever).
