John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 35:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father, etc.] The above was the charge he gave them; and this, in every article of it, they had carefully and constantly kept, though it had been for the space of three hundred years, or thereabout; as follows: in all he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; which was the first of the precepts he gave them: and which they were now tempted to disregard, but were resolved to observe it, as they had hitherto done. The rest of the articles follow.

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