Hello there, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse,

marching our way toward Christmas. So exciting. Today I'm going to be reading the whole chapter of Jeremiah 35 in the World English Bible, and this is what it says.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Joachim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

go to the house of the Reckabites, and speak to them and bring them into Yahweh in the days of Joachim, the son of Josiah, King of Judah, saying, go to the house of the Reckabites,

and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh's house into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink. Then I took Jasaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazenia, with his brothers, all his sons, in the whole house of the Reckabites, and I brought them into Yahweh's

house into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdala, the man of God, which was by the

room of the prince's, which was above the room of Manasseh, the son of Shalom, the keeper of the threshold.

I sat before the sons of the house of the Reckabites, bowls full of wine and cups,

and I said to them, drink wine. But they said, we will drink no wine, for Jonadab, the son of Reckab,

our father commanded us saying, you shall not drink wine, neither shall your children forever.

You shall not build a house, so seed, plant a vineyard, or have any. But all your days

you shall dwell in tents that you may live many days in the land which you live as nomads.

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Reccab, our father, in all that he commanded us to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters.

And not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in.

We have no vineyard, field, or seed, but we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed and done

according to all that Jonadab, our father commanded us. But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

came up into the land, we said, come, let's go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians, so we will dwell at Jerusalem.

Then Yahweh's word came to Jeremiah, saying, Yahweh of armies, the god of Israel, says,

go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Will you not receive instruction

to listen to my words, says Yahweh.

The words of Johnadab, the son of Reckab that he commanded his sons to not to drink wine are performed.

And to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment, but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me.

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