-
Verse Jeremiah 34:18. _WHEN THEY CUT THE CALF IN TWAIN, AND PASSED
BETWEEN_ _THE PARTS THEREOF_] This was the ancient and most solemn way
of making a covenant.
1. A calf as sacrifice was offered to G...
-
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besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah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...
-
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh._ App-14.
TRANSGRESSED. Hebrew. _'abar._ App-44.
CUT THE CALF IN TWAIN. Compare Genesis 15:9; Genesis 15:10.
PASSED BETWEEN, &C. Ref to Pentateuch (G
-
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...
-
See introd. summary to section....
-
_when they cut the calf in twain_ This rendering, which simplifies the
construction, is obtained from the literal Heb. as given in mg. by
transposing two words of the clause in the original. See Genes...
-
WHEN THEY CUT THE CALF IN TWAIN, &C.— That is, "When they made a
solemn covenant and alliance with me, wherein it was usual to pass
between the parts of the sacrifice; as Abraham is described to have...
-
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...
-
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which
have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made
before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the
p...
-
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...
-
CUT THE CALF IN TWAIN] For such mode of ratifying a covenant see on
Genesis 15:8....
-
WHEN THEY CUT THE CALF IN TWAIN... — The passage is interesting, as
showing the survival of one of the oldest rites of Patriarchal times.
So, when Jehovah made a covenant with Abraham, the victims tha...
-
וְ נָתַתִּ֣י אֶת ־הָ אֲנָשִׁ֗ים הָ
עֹֽבְרִים֙
-
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...
-
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have
not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me,
when they (h) cut the calf in two, and passed between the pa...
-
_Parts. This was done to signify that if they transgressed, they
consented to be slain, Genesis xv. 9, 17. It seems Sedecias and his
subjects had solemnly ratified the covenant made at Sinai, being
im...
-
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...
-
He pursues the same subject, — that perjury would not be unpunished.
But here is described the manner of making an oath, even that they
_cut a calf into two parts, and passed between these parts _Now...
-
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...
-
AND I WILL GIVE THE MEN THAT HAVE TRANSGRESSED MY COVENANT,.... The
covenant the king, princes, and all the people made, to let their
servants go free, is called the Lord's covenant, because made in h...
-
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have
not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me,
when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the pa...
-
_When they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts_ In
order to ratify the covenant, they killed a calf, or young bullock,
which they cut in two, and placing the two parts at some distance...
-
Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
-
And I will give the men that have transgressed My covenant, which have
not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before Me,
when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the par...
-
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 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
coven...
-
Jeremiah 34:18 give H5414 (H8804) men H582 transgressed H5674 (H8802)
covenant H1285 performed H6965 (H8689) wor
-
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...
-
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
-
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 34:18 MAKE THEM LIKE THE CALF. Put the
covenant breakers to death by the sword. PASSED BETWEEN ITS PARTS.
Covenant-ratification ceremonies (vv....
-
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...
-
Cut the calf — It seems these Jews in their making of the solemn
covenant with God about releasing their servants used this rite; they
caused a calf, or heifer to be cut in pieces, and the parts to be...