An inherited promise

6But they said, “We will not drink wine, for Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.’”

7You must not build a house, and you must not sow seed, and you must not plant a vineyard, nor shall you have one; but you shall live in tents all your days, so that you may live many days on the face of the land where you are residing there.

8So we have obeyed the voice of Jehonadab son of Rechab, our father, in everything that he commanded us: not to drink wine all our days—we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters.

9and not to build houses for us to live in; and vineyard and field and seed have not been ours.

10So we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.