* Jonadab.
2Ki 10:15 1Ch 2:55
* Ye shall.
Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God,
and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2
Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules
himself; and having trained up his children to habits of
abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere
to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no
religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in
the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the
land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural
consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode
of living would very much contribute to preserve health and
prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting
the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been
provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal
business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture
and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they
would have been deprived of the religious advantages they
enjoyed. In 1; Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which
intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary
employments.
Le 10:9 Nu 6:2-5 Jud 13:7,14 Lu 1:15 1Co 7:26-31
* all.
10 Ge 25:27 Le 23:42,43 Ne 8:14-16 Heb 11:9-13 1Pe 2:11
* that ye.
Ge 36:7 Ex 20:12 1Ch 16:19 Ps 105:12 Eph 6:2,3
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