this Ezra came up out of Babylon; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given. And the king granted him [leave], for the hand of the Lord his God was upon him in all things which he sought.

How will you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.

Now Jabez was more famous than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, I have born [him] as a sorrowful one.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, O that You would indeed bless me, and enlarge my coasts, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would make me know that You will not grieve me! And God granted him all that he asked.

And the children of Jethro the Kenite, the father-in-law of Moses, went up from the City of Palm Trees with the children of Judah, to the wilderness that is in the south of Judah, which is at the descent of Arad, and they dwelt with the people.

And Heber the Kenite had removed from Caina, from the sons of Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, and pitched his tent by the oak of the covetous ones, which is near Kedesh.

And Saul said to the Kenite, Go, and depart out of the midst of the Amalekites, lest I put you with them; for you dealt mercifully with the children of Israel when they went up out of Egypt. So the Kenite departed from the midst of Amalek.

And he went from there and found Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him. And he greeted him, and Jehu said to him, Is your heart right with my heart, as my heart [is] with your heart? And Jehonadab said, It is. And Jehu said, If it is then, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he took him up with him into the chariot.

Go to the house of the Rechabites, and you shall bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.

And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Ananias, the son of Godolias, a man of God, who dwells near the house of the princes that are over the house of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, who kept the court.

But they said, We will by no means drink wine, for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, You shall by no means drink wine, [neither] you, nor your sons, forever.

And we hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our father, so as to drink no wine all our days, we, and our wives, and our sons, and our daughters;