Whether they are lineal descendants or not there is no doubt from these and other testimonies that there are scattered through the Arabian deserts a numerous body who practice the abstinence principles of the ancient, and refer to the example of, Jonadab. The world can never forget Joseph, or Jonadab, or Daniel, or the Hebrew children. A conscientious regard for obligations is praiseworthy before God. A covenant breaker is condemned. When one covenants to abstain from any vice, or to live a Christian life, it is unmanly and a proof of a moral break-down, that the pledge should be broken.
Intemperance is associated with almost every other sin.
The worship of Baal or Bacchus becomes a drunken service. When Jonadab would pledge his people to keep from idolatry he began by taking a temperance pledge. The evils of wine drinking were manifested in the earliest times. In the case of the people before the flood, one charge against them was drunkenness. Absalom took advantage of Ammon's drunkenness to put him to death.