"I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth."
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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besiegers had withdrawn (Jeremiah 34:21; _cf._ Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah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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LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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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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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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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for
meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the ea...
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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 f...
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THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL BE FOR MEAT... — As in Jeremiah 7:33;
Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7, this takes its place as the extremest
penalty of transgression. The sentence on Zedekiah and his princes —
_...
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וְ נָתַתִּ֤י אֹותָם֙ בְּ יַ֣ד
אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם וּ בְ יַ֖ד מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ הָיְתָ֤ה נִבְלָתָם֙...
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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." Jeremiah...
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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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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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He confirms and explains what he had before said, and expresses how
the punishment would be executed, — that he would _deliver _them
_into the hand _of their enemies; and he adds, _who seek their life...
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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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I WILL EVEN GIVE THEM INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES,.... The
Chaldeans, who were the enemies of the Jews, that were come from a far
country to invade, dispossess, ravage, and plunder them; and what c...
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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for
meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the ear...
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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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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 rele...
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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...
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Jeremiah 34:20 give H5414 (H8804) hand H3027 enemies H341 (H8802) hand
H3027 seek H1245 (H8764) life H5315 bodies H5038 meat H3978 birds
H5775 heaven H8064 beasts H929 earth H776
and into - Jeremiah...
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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 45:5 divides up into four main subsections, which are as
fo...
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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...
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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. Jeremiah 34:16) often included...
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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 se...
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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...
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1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:23; 1 Kings 21:24; 1 Samuel
17:44; 1 Samuel 17:46; 2 Kings 9:34; Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 32:4;...