See also:

• RECHABITES, or SONS OF RECHAB

RECHABITES, or SONS OF RECHAB  , a sort of religious See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order among the Israelites in some respects analogous to the NAZARITES (q.v.), with whom they shared the See also:

• RULE

rule of See also:

• ABSTINENCE (from Lat. abstinere, to abstain)

abstinence from See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine . They also eschewed the luxuries and pursuits of settled See also:

• LIFE

life, and lived in tents, refusing to sow See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain as well as to plant vineyards . They represent a protest against the contemporary Canaanite See also:

• CIVILIZATION

civilization and a reaction towards the simplicity of life which was See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt more strongly in See also:

• JUDAH

Judah or to the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of the See also:

• JORDAN (the down-comer; Arab. esh-Sheri'a, the watering-place)
• JORDAN, CAMILLE (1771—1821)
• JORDAN, DOROTHEA (1762—1816)
• JORDAN, THOMAS (1612 ?–1685)
• JORDAN, WILHELM (1819–1904)

Jordan than in the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel . Their " See also:

• FATHER

father," or founder, was that Jehonadab or Jonadab, son of Rechab, who encouraged See also:

• JEHU

Jehu to abolish the Tyrian See also:

• BAAL

Baal-See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship (2 See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings x.) . The order founded by Jehonadab must from its constitution have soon become a sort of hereditary See also:

• CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan, and as such the " See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of Rechab " appears in Judah after the fall of the northern kingdom and continued to observe the See also:

• ORDINANCE
• ORDINANCE, or ORDONNANCE

ordinance of Jehonadab till the approach of See also:

• NEBUCHADREZZAR, or NEBUCHADNEZZAR

Nebuchadrezzar drove them for See also:

• PROTECTION

protection into See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem (Jer. See also:

• XXXV

xxxv.) . See also:

• JEREMIAH

Jeremiah promised them as a See also:

• REWARD

reward of their obedience that they should never lack a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man to represent them (as a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest) before Yahweh, whence perhaps the later Jewish tradition that the See also:

• RECHABITES, or SONS OF RECHAB

Rechabites intermarried with the See also:

• LEVITES

Levites and so entered the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple service . Later references to them probably indicate that the See also:

• TERM

term was used as meaning merely ascetes (Euseb., H . E. ii . 23), the particular See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• ASCETICISM

asceticism (q.v.) being less essential . One may compare the See also:

• MODERN

modern society of See also:

• TOTAL

total abstainers known as the " Rechabites." In i Chron. ii . 55 the " house of Rechab " is associated with the See also:

• KENITES

KENITES (q.v.) as a See also:

• FAMILY

family of See also:

• SCRIBES

scribes . Their origin is ascribed to Ijammath (conceivably the Naphtalite See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, Josh. xix .

35), but in 1 Chron. iv . 12 Rechab (so the LXX) is of Calebite descent .