I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Ver. 20. And their dead bodies.] Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 16:4 .
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 In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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....
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...
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the ea...
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...
THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL BE FOR MEAT... — As in Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7, this takes its place as the extremest penalty of transgression. The sentence on Zedekiah and his princes — _...
וְ נָתַתִּ֤י אֹותָם֙ בְּ יַ֣ד אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם וּ
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 confirms and explains what he had before said, and expresses how the punishment would be executed, — that he would _deliver _them _into the hand _of their enemies; and he adds, _who seek their life...
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...
I WILL EVEN GIVE THEM INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES,.... The Chaldeans, who were the enemies of the Jews, that were come from a far country to invade, dispossess, ravage, and plunder them; and what c...
_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...
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life, to be slain without mercy; AND THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL BE FOR MEAT UNTO THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN AND...
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...
God doth not threaten all the Jews, but those only who had made this covenant, and formally confirmed it, by killing a beast, and passing through the parts of it thus divided and laid opposite one to...
Jeremiah 34:20 give H5414 (H8804) hand H3027 enemies H341 (H8802) hand H3027 seek H1245 (H8764) life...
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...
1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:23; 1 Kings 21:24; 1 Sa