Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 35:15

15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land, which I have given to you, and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkned to me .

God in this Revelation of his Mind to the Prophet expoundeth to him, why he had set him to bring the Rechabites into the Temple, and commanded him to set Wine before them, and invite them to drink of it, that by their refusal of doing according to the invitation, in obedience to their Father Ionadab; he might convince the Iews of their disobedience to his commands, yet Gods commands were more advantaged, then the commands of Ionadab in that. 1. Ionadab was but an earthly Parent, and so had no absolute universal soveraignty over his children, but God was the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. 2. Ionadabs command was not for the performance of a moral duty, but the doing of a thing which they might do, or leave undone. God required of them what was but their moral duty, and for which was the highest reason. 3. Ionadabs command had no promise annexed, Gods precept had a promise annexed, yet they had not yielded him that obedience which the sons of Ionadab had yielded him: He was their Father, but where was his honour.

Marginal references: chap. 18.11. and 25.5.