Yeremia 35:2

35:2 “Go to the Rechabite community. ¹  Invite them to come into one of the side rooms ²  of the Lord’s temple and offer them some wine to drink.”

Pengkhotbah 9:7

Life is Brief, so Cherish its Joys

9:7 Go, eat your food ³  with joy,

and drink your wine with a happy heart,

because God has already approved your works.

Amos 2:12

2:12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine; ⁴ 

you commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy!’

Amos 2:2

2:2 So I will set Moab on fire, ⁵ 

and it will consume Kerioth’s ⁶  fortresses.

Moab will perish ⁷  in the heat of battle ⁸ 

amid war cries and the blaring ⁹  of the ram’s horn. ¹⁰ 

Kolose 2:9

2:9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives ¹¹  in bodily form,

[35:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the house of the Rechabites.” “House” is used here in terms of “household” or “family” (cf. BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת 5.a, b).

[35:2]  sn Nothing is known about the Rechabite community other than what is said about them in this chapter. From vv. 7-8 it appears that they were a nomadic tribe that had resisted settling down and taking up farming. They had also agreed to abstain from drinking wine. Most scholars agree in equating the Jonadab son of Rechab mentioned as the leader who had instituted these strictures as the same Jonadab who assisted Jehu in his religious purge of Baalism following the reign of Ahab (2 Kgs 10:15, 23-24). If this is the case, the Rechabites followed these same rules for almost 250 years because Jehu’s purge of Baalism and the beginning of his reign was in 841 b.c. and the incident here took place some time after Jehoiakim’s rebellion in 603 b.c. (see the study note on v. 1).

[35:2]  ² sn This refers to one of the rooms built on the outside of the temple that were used as living quarters for the priests and for storage rooms (cf. Neh 13:4-5; 1 Kgs 6:5; 1 Chr 28:12; 2 Chr 31:11 and compare Ezek 41:1-14).

[9:7]  ³ tn Heb “your bread.”

[2:12]  ⁴ sn Nazirites were strictly forbidden to drink wine (Num 6:2-3).

[2:2]  ⁵ sn The destruction of Moab by fire is an example of a judgment in kind – as the Moabites committed the crime of “burning,” so the Lord will punish them by setting them on fire.

[2:2]  ⁶ sn Kerioth was an important Moabite city. See Jer 48:24, 41.

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Or “die” (KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV); NAB “shall meet death.”

[2:2]  ⁸ tn Or “in the tumult.” This word refers to the harsh confusion of sounds that characterized an ancient battle – a mixture of war cries, shouts, shrieks of pain, clashes of weapons, etc.

[2:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “sound” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[2:2]  ¹⁰ sn The ram’s horn (used as a trumpet) was blown to signal the approaching battle.

[2:9]  ¹¹ sn In him all the fullness of deity lives. The present tense in this verse (“lives”) is significant. Again, as was stated in the note on 1:19, this is not a temporary dwelling, but a permanent one. Paul’s point is polemical against the idea that the fullness of God dwells anywhere else, as the Gnostics believed, except in Christ alone. At the incarnation, the second person of the Trinity assumed humanity, and is forever the God-man.