15And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
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The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. …
And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Jehu, pushing on his work, is here, I. Courting the friendship of a good man, Jehonadab the son of Rechab , 2 Kgs. 10:15 , 16 . This Jehonadab, though mortified to the world and meddling little with the business of it (as appears by his charge to his posterity, which they religiously observed 300 years after, not to drink wine nor dwell in cities, Jer. 35:6), yet, upon this occasion, went to meet…
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