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In these verses Jeremiah tries to frighten the people into obedience to God by telling them what the end will be if they persisted in their disobedience. He tries to shame them into obedience. He sets forth, as an example, a family of Rechabites who had remained obedient to the commandments that were left them by their ancestor, Jonadab, how they would not be swayed from them and remained obedient to the end. This only aggravates the Jews who did not want to be reminded of their disobedience. He foretells of the judgments that will fall on the Jews for their disobedience and the blessings that will fall upon the Rechabites for their obedience.
The Rechabites were descendants of Rechab, a Bejaminite, who was the father of Jonadab, who destroyed, for a time, all Baal worship in Israel by annihilating the household of King Ahab at Jezreel and established the "Kennite Traditions" (I Chron. 2:55) which were vows of abstinence some of which survived through the ages to become the Vows of the Nazarite during the time of Christ.
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