Reference

Jeremiah 35:2

Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
1

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

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Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

3

Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

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And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Total Abstinence

The verse explicitly commands Jeremiah to *give* the Rechabites wine to drink, which directly contradicts the idea of it supporting total abstinence. The purpose of this command is to test their obedience to their ancestral vow, not to promote abstinence as an ideal.