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1When Jehoiakim was king of Judah, the Lord told me,[#2 K 23.36—24.6; 2 Ch 36.5-7.; #35.1 See the note at 1.3.]
2“Go to the Rechabite clan and invite them to meet you in one of the side rooms of the temple. When they arrive, offer them a drink of wine.”[#35.2 Probably a room with walls on three sides, and open to the courtyard on the fourth side.]
3So I went to Jaazaniah, the leader of the clan, and I invited him and all the men of his clan.[#35.3 The Hebrew text has “Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah son of Habazziniah”; this is a different Jeremiah than the author of the book.]
4I brought them into the temple courtyard and took them upstairs to a room belonging to the prophets who were followers of Hanan son of Igdaliah. It was next to a room belonging to some of the officials, and that room was over the one belonging to Maaseiah, a priest who was one of the high officials in the temple.[#35.4 Hebrew “Maaseiah son of Shallum, the keeper of the temple door.”]
5I set out some large bowls full of wine together with some cups, and then I said to the Rechabites, “Have some wine!”
6But they answered:
12-13Then the Lord told me to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
18Then the Lord told me to say to the Rechabite clan:
“I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You have obeyed your ancestor Jonadab,
19so I promise that your clan will be my servants and will never die out.”