Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
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Gill's Exposition
Go unto the house of the Rechabites,.... Or "family" (c); these are the same with the Kenites, who descended from Hobab or Jethro, Moses's father in law, Jdg 1:16; these, as their ancestors, became…
Barnes' Notes
The house - The family. The Rechabites - The Rechabites were a nomadic tribe not of Jewish but of Kenite race, and connected with the Amalekites Num 24:21; 1Sa 15:6, from whom however they had…
This chapter is of an earlier date than many of those before; for what is contained in it was said and done in the days of Jehoiakim (Jer 35:1); but then it must be in the latter part of his reign,…
Cambridge Bible
Go unto the house The family (so in 3, 5, 18; Gen 7:1, etc.) are meant, not the dwelling-houses. See Jer 35:35. It was some years after the burning of the Roll (in Jehoiakim's fourth year), and it…
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