...all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: 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 forever. IT LAM. 4:6. For the punishment of the' iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than...

...particular clan or nation, not for a few generations only, but so long as the world endures : — " Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before me, for ever." And for this extraordinary blessing a specific reason is assigned ; " Because ye have obeyed the commands...

...unto all that he hath commanded you : 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel ; n e at the voice of thy cry ; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And mProv. i. 24; Isa. Ixv. 12; Ixvi. 4; chap: vii. 13. -»Heb. ThfTf, Khali not a man be cut off from...

...be scattered and lost among the nations — (as very many other tribes have been) in these words : " Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before me for ever." This tribe lived in the desert of Arabia, and is supposed to have embraced the Jewish religion. Niebuhr...

...all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall riot want a man to stand before me forever. IT LAM. 4: 6. For the punishment of the iniquity of the...

...Israel, but was destined to flourish when that proud tree was levelled to the earth.' ' Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son...shall not want a man to stand before me for ever,' Jer. xxxv. 19. The Beni- Rechab, sons of Rechab, still exist, a ' distinct and easily distinguishable...

...why, till some one is pleased to tell them ; but the family of Jonadab did : and therefore said " the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son...shall not want a man to stand before me for ever." § 2. What I have now alleged in the few remarks that I have made may serve to give you a general idea...

...to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; Jonadab the son...shall not want a man to stand before me for ever." Jere. xxxv. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 19. Jonadab the son of Rechab lived in the days of Jehu, whom Elisha anointed...

...commandment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts — therefore, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before me forever. What a marked distinction here. God would preserve and prosper the observers of the fifth...

...respect, as well as in other matters, the prophet Jeremiah introduces the " Lord of Hosts" as saying, " Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before me for ever." It has been said, that the Rechabites were not commended for their abstinence, but for their filial...