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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besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah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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IN THE DAY. when. See App-18.
BONDMEN. slaves....
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See introd. summary to the subsection....
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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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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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Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your
fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondmen, saying,
I MADE A COVENANT WIT...
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34:13 bondage, (a-34) Lit. 'bondmen,' as Exodus 13:3 ; Judges 6:8 ,
&c....
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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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OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDMEN] The point is that Israel's position at
the time when the covenant was made, as having themselves been
delivered from Egyptian slavery, should have taught them better....
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THUS SAITH THE LORD... — The prophet takes as his text the law which
had been so flagrantly broken (Exodus 21:2), reminding them under what
circumstances that law had been given. Their fathers had the...
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כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אָנֹכִ֗י...
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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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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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Now follows the message: The Prophet had, indeed, said that the word
of God had been committed to him, but he interposed this narrative,
that we might know for what reason God had sent this message to...
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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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THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The covenant God of
Israel, their Creator, Redeemer, and Benefactor:
I MADE A COVENANT WITH YOUR FATHERS; gave them a system of laws, among
which was that...
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Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your
fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Ver. 13. _I made a cove...
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_I made a covenant with your fathers, saying, At the end of seven
years_ This is the literal translation of מקצ שׁבע שׁנים;
but the import of the phrase is, _in the course of the seventh year;_
or, _w...
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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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The law of God is called often a COVENANT, because it containeth the
will of God which he would have them do, to which (whether they
express their consent or no), they are bound to consent and agree....
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Jeremiah 34:13 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 Israel H3478 made
H3772 (H8804) covenant H1285 father
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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 34:13 COVENANT WITH YOUR FATHERS. The
Mosaic covenant, which was based on God freeing ISRAEL from the HOUSE
OF SLAVERY (see...
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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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Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 16:12; Deuteronomy
24:18;...