[This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who [were] at Jerusalem, (d) to proclaim liberty to them;
(d) When the enemy was at hand and they saw themselves in danger, they would seem holy, and so began some kind of reformation: but soon after they uttered their hypocrisy.
Verse Jeremiah 34:8. _THE WORD THAT CAME UNTO JEREMIAH_] Here the _second_ discourse begins, which was delivered probably a short time, even a few days, after the former. _ZEDEKIAH HAD MADE A COVENA...
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 In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...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-EIGHTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). a covenant. Note the illustration of the two covenants, (verses: Jeremiah 34:8) and (verses: Jeremiah 34:12), and compare with...
_had made a covenant_ According to Exodus 21:2 [E] a Hebrew male slave was to be set free after six years" service, and by Deuteronomy 15:12 this was extended to female slaves. The conscience-quickeni...
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...
TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY UNTO THEM, &C.— By the law of Moses, Exodus 21:2. Deuteronomy 15:12 the Israelites were not allowed to detain their brethren of the Hebrew race in perpetual bondage, but were requi...
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...
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; THIS IS THE WORD...
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...
AFTER THAT THE KING ZEDEKIAH HAD MADE» A COVENANT... — The remainder of the chapter brings before us an historical episode of considerable interest. The law of Moses did not allow in the case of a fre...
הַ דָּבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁר ־הָיָ֥ה אֶֽל ־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ...
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...
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...
[THIS IS] THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD,.... Here begins a new prophecy, which was delivered some time after the former; that was given out while the king of Babylon was besieging Jerus...
Jeremiah 34:8 [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;...
Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, which he recorded as faithfully as he had received it, AFTER THAT THE KING ZEDEKIAH HAD MADE A COVENANT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE AT JERUSA...
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...
This verse plainly beginneth a new prophecy, but at what particular time this revelation or the publication of it was we are not told, only the occasion of it is recorded. God had made a particular la...
Jeremiah 34:8 word H1697 Jeremiah H3414 LORD H3068 after H310 King H4428 Zedekiah H6667 made H3772 (H8800) covenant
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 34:8 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...
2 Chronicles 15:12; 2 Chronicles 23:16; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 34:30;...