Jeremías 35:6

6 Mas ellos dijeron: No beberemos vino, porque Jonadab, hijo de Recab, nuestro padre, nos ordenó, diciendo: "No beberéis vino jamás, ni vosotros ni vuestros hijos.

Jeremías 35:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 35:6

But they said, we will drink no wine
Or "we do not drink wine" ^F5; we are not used to it; we never do drink any; it is not lawful for us to do it; nor will we, let who will solicit us: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father;
not their immediate father, but their progenitor; perhaps the same Jonadab is meant who lived in the times of Jehu, and rode with him in his chariot; by which it appears he was a man of note and figure, and who lived near three hundred years before this time, ( 2 Kings 10:15 ) ; which is more likely than that he should be a descendant of his, and the proper father of the present Rechabites, which is the opinion of Scaliger ^F6: commanded us, saying, ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your
sons, for ever;
as long as any of them were in the world. What was the reason of this command, and of what follows, is not easy to say; whether it was to prevent quarrels and contentions, luxury and sensuality; or to inure them to hardships; or to put them in remembrance that they were but strangers in the land in which they lived; or to retain them in the original course of life their ancestors had lived in, feeding cattle; be it what it will, these his sons thought themselves under obligations to observe it; and perhaps finding, by experience, it was for their good so to do.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Nyy htvn al) "non hibimus vinum", Vatablus, Schmidt.
F6 Elench. Trihaeres. Serrar. c. 24.

Jeremías 35:6 In-Context

4 y los llevé a la casa del SEÑOR, a la cámara de los hijos de Hanán, hijo de Igdalías, hombre de Dios, la cual estaba cerca de la cámara de los oficiales, que estaba encima de la cámara de Maasías, hijo de Salum, guarda del umbral.

5 Entonces puse delante de los hombres de la casa de los recabitas jarras llenas de vino y tazas, y les dije: Bebed vino.

6 Mas ellos dijeron: No beberemos vino, porque Jonadab, hijo de Recab, nuestro padre, nos ordenó, diciendo: "No beberéis vino jamás, ni vosotros ni vuestros hijos.

7 "No edificaréis casa, ni sembraréis simiente, ni plantaréis viña, ni poseeréis ninguna, sino que habitaréis en tiendas todos vuestros días, para que viváis muchos días en la tierra donde sois peregrinos."

8 Y nosotros hemos obedecido la voz de Jonadab, hijo de Recab, nuestro padre, en todo lo que él nos mandó de no beber vino en todos nuestros días, ni nosotros, ni nuestras mujeres, ni nuestros hijos, ni nuestras hijas,