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The Rechabites Commended

35 [a]The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoi′akim the son of Josi′ah, king of Judah: “Go to the house of the Rech′abites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.”

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Footnotes

  1. 35 This chapter is our chief source of information about the little-known sect of Rechabites; cf. 2 Kings 10. 15-16, 23. They obeyed what they felt to be a call to serve God in the wilderness and desert places. The ancient nomad life during the Exodus was always looked back to as the time of the greatest fidelity to God.

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