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Jeremiah

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1 The word which came unto Jeremi­ah from the LORD in the days of Je­hoiakim the son of Josi­ah king of Ju­dah, say­ing, 2 Go unto the house of the Rech­abites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the cham­bers, and give them wine to drink. 3 Then I took Jaaza­ni­ah the son of Jeremi­ah, the son of Habazini­ah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rech­abites; 4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the cham­ber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Ig­dali­ah, a 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 door: 5 And I set be­fore the sons of the house of the Rech­abites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. 6 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: 7 Nei­ther shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vine­yard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jon­adab the son of Rechab our fa­ther in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daugh­ters; 9 Nor to build hous­es for us to dwell in: nei­ther have we vine­yard, nor field, nor seed: 10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done ac­cord­ing to all that Jon­adab our fa­ther com­mand­ed us. 11 But it came to pass, when Neb­uchadrez­zar 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. 12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremi­ah, say­ing, 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Go and tell the men of Ju­dah and the in­hab­i­tants of Jerusalem, Will ye not re­ceive in­struc­tion to hear­ken to my words? saith the LORD. 14 The words of Jon­adab the son of Rechab, that he com­mand­ed his sons not to drink wine, are per­formed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's com­mand­ment: notwith­stand­ing I have spo­ken unto you, ris­ing ear­ly and speak­ing; but ye hear­kened not unto me. 15 I have sent also unto you all my ser­vants the prophets, ris­ing up ear­ly and send­ing them, say­ing, Re­turn ye now ev­ery man from his evil way, and amend your do­ings, and go not af­ter oth­er gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have giv­en to you and to your fa­thers: but ye have not in­clined your ear, nor hear­kened unto me. 16 Be­cause the sons of Jon­adab the son of Rechab have per­formed the com­mand­ment of their fa­ther, which he com­mand­ed them; but this peo­ple hath not hear­kened unto me: 17 There­fore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Be­hold, I will bring upon Ju­dah and upon all the in­hab­i­tants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pro­nounced against them: be­cause I have spo­ken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not an­swered. 18 And Jeremi­ah said unto the house of the Rech­abites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Be­cause ye have obeyed the com­mand­ment of Jon­adab your fa­ther, and kept all his pre­cepts, and done ac­cord­ing unto all that he hath com­mand­ed you: 19 There­fore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Jon­adab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand be­fore me for ev­er.