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Verse Jeremiah 34:11. _BUT AFTERWARD THEY TURNED_] They had agreed to
manumit them at the end of the _seventh_ year; but when the _seventh_
year was ended, they recalled their engagement, and detained...
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It is usual with commentators to say that, the laws dealing with the
emancipation of the Hebrew slaves, as also that of the land resting
during the sabbatical year, were not observed. The narrative te...
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CHAPTER 34:8-22
The Message of Condemnation
The king had made a covenant that all Hebrew slaves should be released
Exodus 21:1; Deuteronomy 15:12. The princes and people agreed, but
afterwards broke...
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THE CANCELLED LIBERATION OF SLAVES. In the interval during which the
besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah
37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...
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Condemnation of the perjury involved in the treatment of the Hebrew
slaves
The subsection may be summarized as follows. (i) Jeremiah 34:8.
Zedekiah induces the people solemnly to bind themselves to r...
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The MT. is somewhat awkward, and the LXX (preferred by Co. and Du.)
clearer and briefer. But we cannot accept the latter with entire
confidence....
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B. A Shameful Repudiation Jeremiah 34:8-11
TRANSLATION
(8) The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were in
Jerusalem to proc...
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JEREMIAH'S EIGHTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH). THE FATE OF
ZEDEKIAH. THE TREATMENT OF HEBREW SLAVES
Early in the campaign of Nebuchadnezzar, whose scheme of conquest
included all the region as fa...
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וַ יָּשׁ֨וּבוּ֙ אַחֲרֵי ־כֵ֔ן וַ
יָּשִׁ֗בוּ א
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CHAPTER XI
A BROKEN COVENANT
Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1
"All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage
again all the slaves whom they had set free....
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Chapter s thirty-four and thirty-five contain prophecies of the siege.
The armies of Nebuchadnezzar were round about Jerusalem, and Jehovah
declared to Zedekiah that the king of Babylon would be succe...
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Concerning the law for the release of servants, we have it at large,
Exodus 21:16. And as this was a beautiful type of the Lord Jesus, in
becoming Jehovah's servant for his Church and people; it was m...
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He then adds, _And they afterwards turned, _that is, after they had
heard and obeyed. The turning refers to a change of purpose, for they
immediately repented of what they had done. They had felt some...
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On the occasion of renewed iniquity the prophet announces the certain
ruin of the people. Nevertheless Zedekiah, though carried captive to
Babylon, should die there in peace. [1] In the succeeding Cha...
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BUT AFTERWARDS THEY TURNED,.... From the law of God, and their own
agreement, and returned to their former usage of their servants; they
changed their minds and measures. This seems to be done, when t...
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But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids,
whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection
for servants and for handmaids.
Ver. 11. _But afterwards t...
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_Now when all the princes, &c., heard_ This verse is better translated
by Blaney and others thus, _And all the princes hearkened_, or,
_consented, and all the people who entered into covenant to let e...
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But afterward they turned, they changed their minds, AND CAUSED THE
SERVANTS AND THE HANDMAIDS WHOM THEY HAD LET GO FREE TO RETURN AND
BROUGHT THEM INTO SUBJECTION FOR SERVANTS AND FOR HANDMAIDS. When...
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Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
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8-22 A Jew should not be held in servitude above seven years. This
law they and their fathers had broken. And when there was some hope
that the siege was raised, they forced the servants they had rel...
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Like a company of wretched hypocrites, they reformed this abuse only
to serve a turn, which when it was served they returned again to their
old oppression; and in this thing not the people alone, but...
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Jeremiah 34:11 afterward H310 minds H7725 (H8799) male H5650 slaves
H8198 return H7725 (H8686) set H7971 ...
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HAVING SET FREE THEIR HEBREW SLAVES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SINAI
COVENANT THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM RENEGE ON THEIR COMMITMENT,
BRINGING DOWN ON THEMSELVES THE WRATH OF YHWH AND THE CERTAINTY OF
BA...
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SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED).
As we have previously seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1
to Jeremiah
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CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah concerning the coming captivity.
Zedekiah's ineffectual decree.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah.
CONCLUSION: God's compassion toward us should engag...
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Jeremiah 34:2. _Go and speak to Zedekiah._ This revelation was
delivered in the tenth year of his reign, and would have saved the
land, when all hopes of safety were fled.
Jeremiah 34:4. _Thou shalt n...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:8 When Jerusalem feared that defeat was
imminent, the people freed all HEBREW SLAVES, or bondservants, so they
could fight, BUT AFTERWARD, when the threat subsided, they t...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES:—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section
I., Jeremiah 34:1, is in subject connected with chap. Jeremiah 32:1.
These verses, however, seem slightly to antedate that chapter,...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter must be taken in connection with Jeremiah 35:1. The whole
section consists of three passages, introduced with a superscription
in the same form, but otherwise unrelated. It ser...
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Now we come to a chronologically new set of prophecies, and this is
one that Zedekiah threw him in jail for back in the thirty-first
chapter, thirty-second chapter.
The word which came unto Jeremiah f...
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1 Samuel 19:6; 1 Samuel 24:19; 1 Samuel 26:21; 2 Peter 2:20;...