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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besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah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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See introd. summary to section....
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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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THE EUNUCHS— Who made part of the court-officers. See 2 Kings 25:19.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, This prophesy in its date precedes the former,
being, it seems, the cause of Jeremiah's commitment to the court o...
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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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_THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, AND THE PRINCES OF JERUSALEM, THE EUNUCHS, AND
THE PRIESTS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, WHICH PASSED BETWEEN THE
PARTS OF THE CALF;_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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THE EUNUCHS. — See Note on Jeremiah 29:2. They were for the most
part, if not always, of alien birth (comp. Isaiah 56:3), as in the
case of Ebed-melech (Jeremiah 38:7), who had become proselytes on
en...
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שָׂרֵ֨י יְהוּדָ֜ה וְ שָׂרֵ֣י
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם הַ...
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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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_Eunuchs, chief officers. One was at the head of the army, 4 Kings
xxv. 19._...
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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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He adds, _The princes of Judah _and _the princes of Jerusalem, etc.
_He does not here name them as though they were different persons, but
he speaks by way of amplifying. He then says that he would pu...
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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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THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, AND THE PRINCES OF JERUSALEM,.... Here is a
particular enumeration of the persons that had made the covenant, and
transgressed it, and that should suffer for so doing; the prince...
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The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and
the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the
parts of the calf;
Ver. 19. _The princes of Judah._] These w...
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_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...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Jeremiah 34:19 princes H8269 Judah H3063 princes H8269 Jerusalem H3389
eunuchs H5631 priests H3548 people H5971 land...
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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 34:18 MAKE THEM LIKE THE CALF. Put the
covenant breakers to death by the sword. PASSED BETWEEN ITS PARTS.
Covenant-ratification ceremonies (vv....
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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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2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15; Daniel 9:12; Daniel 9:6; Daniel 9:8;...