Jeremiah 35:6

Modern English Version

But they said, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rekab our father commanded us, saying, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.

Cross References

Genesis 25:27

So the boys grew. Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a calm man, living in tents.

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were foreigners could not sustain them because of their livestock.

2 Kings 10:15

Then he left there and found Jehonadab son of Rekab coming to meet him. He greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart right with me, as my heart is with yours?” And Jehonadab said, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and he pulled him up to him into the chariot.

2 Kings 10:23

Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Rekab went into the house of Baal and said to the worshippers of Baal, “Search and see that there are no worshippers of the Lord here with you and only worshippers of Baal.”

1 Chronicles 16:19

When you were few in number, few indeed, and strangers there,

1 Chronicles 2:55

The families of the scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. They are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rekab.

Psalm 105:12

When they were few in number, very few, and strangers in it,

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Jeremiah 35:10

But we have lived in tents only and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab the son of Rekab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed, for to this day they drink none, but they obey their father’s commandment. However, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not obey Me.

Leviticus 10:9

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.

Judges 13:14

She must not consume anything that grows on the vine. She must not drink wine or strong drink, and she must not eat anything unclean. She must observe everything that I commanded her.”

Judges 13:7

but said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and bear a son. So now, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day he dies.’ ”