Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 34:10
The princes and the people, having first with the king agreed to the thing, upon the issuing out of his proclamation they at first yielded obedience to it.
The princes and the people, having first with the king agreed to the thing, upon the issuing out of his proclamation they at first yielded obedience to it.
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...
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...
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 In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...
THE TWENTY-NINTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). EVERY ONE. ' _ish_, as in Jeremiah 34:9....
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...
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....
NOW, &C.— _And all the princes,_ &c. _consented that every one,_ &c. _They consented, and let them go._...
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...
_NOW WHEN ALL THE PRINCES, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, WHICH HAD ENTERED INTO THE COVENANT, HEARD THAT EVERY ONE SHOULD LET HIS MANSERVANT, AND EVERY ONE HIS MAIDSERVANT, GO FREE, THAT NONE SHOULD SERVE THEMS...
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...
וַ יִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ כָל ־הַ שָּׂרִ֨ים וְ כָל
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....
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...
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...
He says, that all _the princes and all the people heard, who had come to the covenant, that every one should let his servant free, etc_. ; and then he adds, _And they obeyed _The verb שמע, _shemo, _is...
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...
NOW WHEN ALL THE PRINCES, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, WHICH HAD ENTERED INTO THE COVENANT,.... The king had made with the people. Here the princes are mentioned, who were not before, but included in the peopl...
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themse...
_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...
Now, when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant, with due solemnity, including the bringing of sacrifices, HEARD THAT EVERY ONE SHOULD LET HIS MAN-SERVANT AND EVERY ON...
Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
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...
Jeremiah 34:10 princes H8269 people H5971 entered H935 (H8804) covenant H1285 heard H8085 (H8799) everyone H376...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Isaiah 29:13; Jeremiah 26:10; Jeremiah 26:16; Jeremiah 3:10;...