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Verse Jeremiah 34:22. _I WILL - CAUSE THEM TO RETURN_] They did
return; re-invested the city; and, after an obstinate defence, took
it, plundered it, and burned it to the ground, taking _Zedekiah_ and...
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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besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah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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A DESOLATION, &C.: or, too desolate to have an inhabitant; or,
desolate through having no inhabitant....
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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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See introd. summary to section....
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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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Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to
this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it
with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation wi...
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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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הִנְנִ֨י מְצַוֶּ֜ה נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֗ה וַ
הֲשִׁ֨בֹתִ֜ים...
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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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_Command. He did not approve of their cruelty, but used them as
scourges. (Worthington)_...
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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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REFLECTIONS
WE cannot close this Chapter without first stopping to admire God's
patience and man's unworthiness. Though judgment was at the door, and
everyone seemed to be tremblingly alive at what w...
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He shews the same thing in other words, but the repetition was not in
vain, for what we read here seemed incredible to the Jews. For they
raised up their horns when they saw the King Nebuchadnezzar de...
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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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BEHOLD, I WILL COMMAND, SAITH THE LORD, AND CAUSE THEM TO RETURN TO
THIS CITY,.... The Lord of hosts, or armies, was "Generalissimo" of
Nebuchadnezzar's army, had it at his command, and could direct i...
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Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to
this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it
with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation wit...
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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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Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to
this city, acting in this case as the Lord's servants; AND THEY SHALL
FIGHT AGAINST IT AND TAKE IT AND BURN IT WITH FIRE; AND I WILL...
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Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....
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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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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 w...
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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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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 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Kings 24:3; 2 Samuel 16:11; Amo
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Behold — I will put into their hearts to return....