1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:
2. Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, to one of the rooms there, and give them wine to drink.
3. So I took Jaazaniah, son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, his brothers and all his sons—the whole house of the Rechabites—
4. and I brought them to the house of the Lord, to the room of the sons of Hanan, son of Igdaliah, the man of God, next to the room of the princes above the room of Maaseiah, son of Shallum, the guard at the entrance.
5. I set before the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups, and said to them, “Drink some wine.”
6. “We do not drink wine,” they said to me; “Jonadab, Rechab’s son, our father, commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your children shall ever drink wine.
7. Build no house and sow no seed; do not plant vineyards or own any. You must dwell in tents all your lives, so that you may live long on the land where you live as resident aliens.’
8. We have obeyed Jonadab, Rechab’s son, our father, in everything that he commanded us: not drinking wine as long as we live—neither we nor our wives nor our sons nor our daughters;
9. not building houses to live in; not owning vineyards or fields or crops.