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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."
The families of the scribes, who lived in Jabesh [a town near Bethlehem; a person with the same name is mentioned in 1 Chron. 4:9-10], were the Tiratites, the Simatites, and the Sukatites. These were the Kenites who came from Hammat, the ancestor of the Rechabites.
"Go to the house of the Rechavites and speak to them and bring them to the house of the Lord (Yahweh), into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
[The Rechabites were a nomadic tribe related to the Canaanites () and descended from Jonadav (). They are associated with working with metal and making chariots, see . The reason Jeremiah includes this prophetically symbolic event is to compare the loyalty of this family in keeping a promise to an ancestor who lived 250 years earlier with the unfaithfulness of the people of Judah toward the living God's command.]
And I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah [not the prophet's son, but the Rechabite Jeremiah's son], the son of Chavatsinja, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites
And I set before the sons of the house of Rechab jars full of wine and cups, and said to them, "Drink wine."
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,
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).
