Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 34:17
Behold — You shall perish by the sword, famine and pestilence, and those of you who escape them, shall be slaves, in many nations.
Behold — You shall perish by the sword, famine and pestilence, and those of you who escape them, shall be slaves, in many nations.
Verse Jeremiah 34:17. _I PROCLAIM A LIBERTY FOR YOU_] Ye proclaimed _liberty_ to your slaves, and afterward resumed your _authority_ over them; and I had in consequence _restrained_ the sword from cu...
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 In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...
LIBERTY... LIBERTY. Figure of speech _Antanaclasis_, by which the same word is used in two different senses in the same sentence. TO. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septua...
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...
_I proclaim unto you a liberty_ The people, hitherto God's servants, and secure in that service, shall be cast oft by Him, and shall accordingly, being no longer under His protection as their Owner, b...
See introd. summary to section....
BEHOLD, I PROCLAIM A LIBERTY— "I will now make public proclamation, that I give free commission and liberty for the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, to destroy you utterly." The reader will obse...
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...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, t...
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 people shall no longer as hitherto be under God's protection as His servants, but be thrown by Him on their own resources, and so exposed to their perils....
BEHOLD, I PROCLAIM A LIBERTY FOR YOU... The phrase “proclaim liberty,” prominent in connexion with the law which had been broken (Leviticus 25:10; Isaiah 61:1), is emphasised with an indignant irony....
לָכֵן֮ כֹּה ־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֒ אַתֶּם֙ לֹֽא ־שְׁ
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...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to ...
_For you. I acknowledge you no longer as my servant. I will let loose the sword, &c., against you._...
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...
Here the Prophet shews that a just reward was prepared for the Jews, who robbed their brethren of the privilege of freedom, for they also would have in their turn to serve after the Lord had made them...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... This being the case, and this their crime, which was provoking to the Lord; YE HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO ME IN PROCLAIMING LIBERTY EVERYONE TO HIS BROTHER, AND EVERYO...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to...
_And ye were now turned_ That is, reformed in this particular; _and had done right in my sight_ In proclaiming liberty to your servants. _And ye had made a covenant before me_ Had entered into solemn...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Ye have not hearkened unto Me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every man to his neighbor, for the ceremony in which they had taken part in the Temp...
Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
TO BE REMOVED: _ Heb._ for a removing...
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...
They had turned and given a liberty, JEREMIAH 34:20; how doth God say here they had not? So God accounteth none to have done those good acts which they do in a fit, or merely to serve themselves of Go...
Jeremiah 34:17 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 obeyed H8085 (H8804) proclaiming H7121 (H8800) liberty H1865 one...
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...
_Ye have not hearkened unto Me, in proclaiming liberty._ THE LIBERTY OF SIN The Word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah that all bondservants in Israel should be forthwith emancipated. At first the prin...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:17 Because the servants have not been set free, God sets the nation “free” to be consumed by SWORD, PESTILENCE, and FAMINE. See...
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...
Daniel 6:24; Deuteronomy 19:19; Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:64;...