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I brought them to the room in the Lord’s temple assigned to the sons of Hanan, Igdaliah’s son, the man of God. The room was next to the one used by the chief officers and right above the room of Maaseiah, Shallum’s son, the temple doorkeeper.[a] Then I set bowls full of wine before the Rechabites, along with several cups, and I said to them, “Have some.”

But they refused: “We don’t drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab, Rechab’s son, commanded us, ‘You and your children are never to drink wine;

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  1. Jeremiah 35:4 Or keeper of the threshold

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