JEREMIAH CHAPTER 34 The captivity of Zedekiah and the city, JEREMIAH 34:1. The princes and people by solemn covenant, according to the law, dismiss their bond-servants, but the Babylonians leaving the siege, they reassume them, JEREMIAH 34:8. For this God threateneth a return of the enemy, and destr... [ Continue Reading ]
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We had all this JEREMIAH 32:3,4. SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 32:3", SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 32:4".... [ Continue Reading ]
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This only place informeth us concerning the manner of Zedekiah's death, and that both negatively and positively. Negatively, that he did not die by the sword, the king of Babylon took him, killed his sons before his eyes, then put out his eyes, and bound him in chains, JEREMIAH 39:7, but killed him... [ Continue Reading ]
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The prophet was not afraid to go and do the message God had intrusted him with to the king, upon which he was imprisoned, as we read before, JEREMIAH 32:3: the time it should seem was after that the king of Babylon had invaded the country, and, taken the greatest part of it; only three fortified pla... [ Continue Reading ]
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 law respecting the Jewish nation, that if any _had bought an Hebrew servant, he should serve but six y... [ Continue Reading ]
This was the tenor of God's law mentioned in the above named texts; and it seemeth Zedekiah, taking notice of the common violation of this law, and the Jews ordinary oppressing those of their own nation this way, judging that this might be one of those sins for which the wrath of God was at this tim... [ Continue Reading ]
The princes and the people, having first with the king agreed to the thing, upon the issuing out of his proclamation they at first yielded obedience to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Like a company of wretched hypocrites, they reformed this abuse only to serve a turn, which when it was served they returned again to their old oppression; and in this thing not the people alone, but the government, was to be blamed, for their judges in the courts of justice ought to have executed t... [ Continue Reading ]
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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. But to the Jews all God's laws given on Mount Sinai were a formal, explicit covenant, God explicitly... [ Continue Reading ]
This is but a repetition of the law, EXODUS 21:2 DEUTERONOMY 15:12, which concerned such persons as were sold by others, or had sold themselves. God would not have his people take advantage of the sudden and rash acts of their brethren, which were the effects of passion. Notwithstanding this law the... [ Continue Reading ]
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 purpose, and that in _the temple_, where it seemeth this covenant was made.... [ Continue Reading ]
You again licked up your vomit, and profaned my name, swearing by it to do that which you have not done, and forced your servants, though dismissed, to return again unto their former bondage and subjection to you.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 God; he saith they had not done it, because they did not persist to do it; in such a case men's righte... [ Continue Reading ]
This was a ceremony which they used in making of covenants, not without something of a warrant from a Divine precedent, GENESIS 15:9,10: it is said, JEREMIAH 34:18, that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham (that covenant was a promise that Abraham's seed should possess the land of Canaan)... [ Continue Reading ]
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God doth not threaten all the Jews, but those only who had made this covenant, and formally confirmed it, by killing a beast, and passing through the parts of it thus divided and laid opposite one to another. Of these he spareth none, but threatens both the king, and nobles, and great courtiers, as... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is nothing in this verse but what was said before, save only in the last clause, where mention is made of the king of Babylon's army, which was gone up from them, the occasion of which we shall meet with JEREMIAH 37:5, because there was an army came out of Egypt to assist the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will put it into their hearts to return, saith the Lord, and they shall come back again to the siege, and shall rise up no more till they have taken the city, and burned it with fire, and made the whole country desolate. The motions of armies are under the government of Divine Providence, they are... [ Continue Reading ]