The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-01-14
The Sunday Schools.
LESSON FOR NEXT SUNDAY.
.......... Jan. II, 1856.
Jer. 35. 1919.

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IL Then came the word of the Lord unto Jere-
miah, saying,
13 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God OF
Israel: Go and tell the men of Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive
instruction to hearken to my words? saith the
| Lord.
IA The words of Jonadab the son of Rebhab,
that he commanded his sons not to drink wine,
| are performed; for unto this day they drink
none, but they obey their fathers command
ment:. notwithstanding have spoken unto
you, rising early and speaking; but ye heark-
ened not unto me.
15 have sent also unto you all my servants
the prophets rising up early and sending them,
saying, Return we now every man from his
evil way, and amend your doings, and go after
other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in
the land which have given to you and to your
| fathers; but ye have not inclined your ear. nor
| hearkened unto me.
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of
| Rechab have performed the commandment of
| their father, which he commanded them but
this people hath not hearkened unto me:
II Therefore thus saith the Lord God OF hosts,
the God of Israel; Behold will bring upon
Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem all the evil that have pronounced against
them, but they have not heard; and 1 have
called unto them, but they have not answered.
is And jeremiah said unto the house of the
Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel Because We have obeyed the COM
mandment of Jonadab your father, and kept
all his precepts, and done according to all his
precepts, and done according to all that he hath
commanded you;
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall
not want a man to stand before me forever.
GOLDEN TEXT-FOr unto this day they drink
none, but they obey their fathers command
ment.-Jer. 35. II.
jeremiah was a sorrowful Prophet
being distinguished as "The Weeping
Prophet" He lived in a time when he
was compelled to view with sorrow the
conduct of his people. Exhortations,
prayers, warnings, seemed lost upon this
people.
At the time the events of this lesson
occurred, the old Assyrian Empire had
been destroyed, and its western provinces
occupied by the Chaldeans. Nebuchad-
nezzar led an army into Palestine to COM
pei obedience to the new Chaldean EN-
pire, he being a joint ruler with his ia
ther, the King of Babylon.
The invasion by the Chaldeans caused
great alarm among the people, and large
numbers focked to the city for safety. |
Among those who came were strange |
nomad people, related to the Israelites as |
descendants of Abraham, but not of Ja-
cob. These were the Rechabites, whose |
great ancestor, JOnadab, lived in the time
of Jehu, and aided in the reforms of Is
rael. Jonadab, or Jehonadab, foreseeing
the evils likely to result from increase of
population and luxurious living, charged
his descendants to drink no wine, and
avoid living in large cities. Two hundred
and fifty years afterward, in the time of
jeremiah, tribe of these shepherds and
cattle rasers were residing in Jerusalem,
and still obeying their ancestors injunc-
ton. Jeremiah used the faithfulness of
these people as an example in pleading
with his own people, who for centuries
had been disobedient to their Heavenly
Father. The Rechabites were family
who for three hundred years had abstain
eel from the use of intoxicating liquors.
Jehoiakim had resisted the authority of
Nebuchadnezzar contrary to the counsel
Of jeremiah, and the invasion of Pales-
tine drove these Rechabites into Jerusa-
salem. What strange contrast as to
faithfulness. A tribe of people obeying
the injunction of an earthly parent for
three centuries, a kindred tribe for centu-
ries disobeying the injunctions of the
Heavenly Father