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neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
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A Strategy for Survival
Commentators explain that Jonadab's rules were not arbitrary but a practical strategy. By forbidding houses, farming, and wine, he was prescribing a nomadic lifestyle for his descendants. This was meant to keep them humble, mobile, and detached from worldly possessions, making them less vulnerable to envy, temptation, and the calamities that a settled life could bring in a land where they were strangers.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Wine is the symbol of a settled life, because the vine requires time for its growth and care in its cultivation, while the preparation of the wine …
19th Century
Anglican
We will drink no wine ... — We have here, so to speak, the rule of the tribe or order which looked to Jonadab as its foun…
16th Century
Protestant
It must first be observed that the order of time in which the prophecies were written has not been retained. In history, the regular succession of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard , nor have [any] That…
Jonadab was famous for wisdom and piety. He lived nearly 300 years before, 2 Kings 10:15. Jonadab charged his posterity not to drink wi…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he convicts them of their transgression by the example of some obedient men.
First, the test of their obedience is given. Se…
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