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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 34:12

Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord,.... The word of Jehovah the Son, from Jehovah the Father, because of this transgression of the princes and people, and as soon as it was committed by them; for it is plain, from Jeremiah 34:21, that it was before the Chaldean army returned to Jerusalem, after its departure from it:

saying; as follows:

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See also Jeremiah 34:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the subsection....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEREFORE THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֤י דְבַר ־יְהוָה֙ אֶֽל ־יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Ver. 12. _Therefore the word of the Lord._] Of God the Son. _a_ Came to Jeremiah from the Lord.] From God the Father. _ a_ Jun...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Of The Evil Treatment of Bond-Servants....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 34:12 word H1697 LORD H3068 Jeremiah H3414 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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