55 and the clans of scribes[a] who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, Shimeathites and Sucathites. These are the Kenites(A) who came from Hammath,(B) the father of the Rekabites.[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:55 Or of the Sopherites
  2. 1 Chronicles 2:55 Or father of Beth Rekab

But they replied, “We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jehonadab[a](A) son of Rekab gave us this command: ‘Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.(B)

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  1. Jeremiah 35:6 Hebrew Jonadab, a variant of Jehonadab; here and often in this chapter

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