8. We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons or our daughters,
9. nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.
10. We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11. But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.' So we have dwelt in Jerusalem."