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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besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah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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WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME. upon which My name is called....
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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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See introd. summary to the subsection....
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AND YE WERE NOW TURNED— The _covenant_ was properly such a one as
that which Josiah and all the people formerly made in the house of the
Lord, whereby they obliged themselves to worship him, to observ...
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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...
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And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a
covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
IN THE HOUSE...
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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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YE HAD MADE A COVENANT BEFORE ME IN THE HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY
NAME. — The words point to the solemnity with which the new
engagements had been contracted. It was not merely that the king had
iss...
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וַ תָּשֻׁ֨בוּ אַתֶּ֜ם הַ יֹּ֗ום וַ
תַּעֲשׂ֤וּ
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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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And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming
liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before
me in (f) the house which is called by my name:
(f) Meaning...
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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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_And ye now turned, and did what was right in my eyes, by proclaiming
liberty every one to his neighbor: _God seems at first to commend the
people; and no doubt it ought to have been deemed praisewort...
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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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AND YE WERE NOW TURNED,.... Or, "today indeed ye were turned" r some
little time ago, indeed, it must be owned, that ye turned from the
evil ways of your fathers, for which you were to be commended, a...
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And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming
liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before
me in the house which is called by my name:
Ver. 15. _And...
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_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...
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Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
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And ye were now turned, in a change which seemed sincere enough, AND
HAD DONE RIGHT IN MY SIGHT, IN PROCLAIMING LIBERTY EVERY MAN TO HIS
NEIGHBOR, AND YE HAD MADE A COVENANT BEFORE ME IN THE HOUSE WHI...
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NOW:
_ Heb._ today
WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME:
_ Heb._ whereupon my name is called...
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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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YE WERE NOW TURNED; that is, reformed in this particular, in which you
had done the thing which I commanded you, PROCLAIMING A LIBERTY to
your servants. And you MADE A COVENANT in my presence to that...
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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 34:15 REPENTED. Of not obeying God’s
word on indentured persons. MADE A COVENANT. Performed a solemn
covenant ceremony in the temple, setting the servants free....
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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 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 10:30; 2 Kings 10:31; 2 Kings 12:2; 2 Kin