Jeremiah 34:1

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 destruction of Jerusalem, Jeremiah 34:11. The revelation of the will of God to Jeremiah, to be published to the people during the time of the siege. The seven first verses are plainly a distinct prophecy from that in the latter part of the chapter. It was (as some think) for this sermon that the prophet was imprisoned (for in this prophecy the sermons are much disordered in the placing of them); so as this, showing the cause for which the king imprisoned him, is set after others, Jer 32, which were during the time of his imprisonment.