The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Ver. 19. The princes of Judah.] These were most of them cut in pieces by the King of Babylon, as the calf had been.
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 In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...
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...
See introd. summary to section....
THE EUNUCHS— Who made part of the court-officers. See 2 Kings 25:19. REFLECTIONS.—1st, This prophesy in its date precedes the former, being, it seems, the cause of Jeremiah's commitment to the court o...
C. A Stern Denunciation Jeremiah 34:12-22 TRANSLATION (12) And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, (13) Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your f...
_THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, AND THE PRINCES OF JERUSALEM, THE EUNUCHS, AND THE PRIESTS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, WHICH PASSED BETWEEN THE PARTS OF THE CALF;_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
THE EUNUCHS. — See Note on Jeremiah 29:2. They were for the most part, if not always, of alien birth (comp. Isaiah 56:3), as in the case of Ebed-melech (Jeremiah 38:7), who had become proselytes on en...
שָׂרֵ֨י יְהוּדָ֜ה וְ שָׂרֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם הַ...
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...
_Eunuchs, chief officers. One was at the head of the army, 4 Kings xxv. 19._...
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 adds, _The princes of Judah _and _the princes of Jerusalem, etc. _He does not here name them as though they were different persons, but he speaks by way of amplifying. He then says that he would pu...
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...
THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, AND THE PRINCES OF JERUSALEM,.... Here is a particular enumeration of the persons that had made the covenant, and transgressed it, and that should suffer for so doing; the prince...
_The princes of Judah, &c._, (see Jeremiah 29:2,) _the eunuchs_ The officers belonging to the court; _the priests and all the people which passed between the parts of the calf_ Assenting to the solemn...
The princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the chamberlains or officers of the court, AND THE PRIESTS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, WHICH PASSED BETWEEN THE PARTS OF THE CALF,...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 34:19 princes H8269 Judah H3063 princes H8269 Jerusalem H3389 eunuchs H5631 priests H3548 people H5971 land...
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
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...
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 34:18 MAKE THEM LIKE THE CALF. Put the covenant breakers to death by the sword. PASSED BETWEEN ITS PARTS. Covenant-ratification ceremonies (vv....
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...
2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15; Daniel 9:12; Daniel 9:6; Daniel 9:8;...