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In our chapter, Jehu made common cause with Jehonadab ben Rechab: \u201cHe greeted him and said to him, \u2018Are you as wholehearted with me as I am with you\u2019? \u2018I am\u2019, Jehonadab replied. \u2018If so, [said Jehu,] give me your hand\u2019. He gave him his hand and [Jehu] helped him into the chariot\u201d (15). Subsequently, Jehonadab participated in Jehu\u2019s stratagem to eliminate all of the priests of Baal in one fell swoop (23 ff.), and that is all we hear of him at this juncture.<\/span><\/p>\n

The name Jehonadab ben Rechab recurs in the Book of Jeremiah. God instructed Jeremiah \u201cGo to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them\u201d (35:2) and ordered him to tempt them to drink wine. The Rechabites refused, explaining:<\/span><\/p>\n

We will not drink wine, for our ancestor, Jonadab son of Rechab, commanded us: \u201cYou shall never drink wine, either you or your children (6). Nor shall you build houses or sow fields or plant vineyards, nor shall you own such things; but you shall live in tents all your days, so that you may live long upon the land where you sojourn\u201d (7). And we have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us\u2026 (8).<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the names Jehonadab\/Jonadab and Rechab occurred previously in Tanakh. The former was the name of a wise friend of Amnon, son of King David, who advised him on how to have his way with Tamar (cf. 2 Samuel 13:3 ff.), and the latter was one of a pair of officers of King Saul who betrayed Ish Boshet, Saul\u2019s son, and delivered his head to David (2 Samuel 4:2 ff.). Since the combination is unique to this chapter and to Jeremiah, the medieval exegetes were inclined to regard them as one and the same. Relying on 1 Chronicles 2:55, they also considered them to be descended from Jethro, father-in-law of Moses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aaron Demsky, Professor at Bar-Ilan University, captured this identification as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

RECHABITES: A clan headed by Jehonadab, son of Rechab (c. 841 BCE), claiming descent from Jethro and the Kenites. The Rechabites resided among the Israelites, leading a pastoral existence, and abstaining from intoxicating drink. Zealous anti-Baalists, they cooperated with Jehu in extirpating the household of Ahab (2 Kgs. 10.15-27). They still existed in the time of Jeremiah, who held them up to the recalcitrant Judeans as an example of fidelity and self-discipline. 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