This family of the Rechabites was an ancient family, for we find the founder of it in the days of Jesse, 2 Kings 10:15-16. But some have supposed that it began much earlier, even tracing it to Hobab, Moses' father-in-law. I refer the Reader, if he be desirous to examine this point for himself, to Numbers 10:29-30; Judges 1:16. The prohibition of wine should seem to imply, that the original founder was of the order of the Nazarites. But whether so or not, the house of the Rechabites became a living reproach to all the drunkards of Ephraim. Oh! for more of the house of the Rechabites in this our day!
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Jeremiah 35:1-2
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.