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Jeremiah 34:15-22

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15 "Although recently you had turned and 1done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had 2made a covenant before Me 3in the house which is called by My name.
16 "Yet you 4turned and 5profaned My name, and each man took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male servants and female servants."'
17 "Therefore thus says the LORD, 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am 6proclaiming a release to you,' declares the LORD, 'to the 7sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a 8terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 'I will give the men who have 9transgressed My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they 10cut the calf in two and passed between its parts -
19 the 11officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf -
20 I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who 12seek their life. And their 13dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
21 '14Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has 15gone away from you.
22 'Behold, I am going to command,' declares the LORD, 'and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and 16take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a 17desolation 18without inhabitant.' "
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Jeremiah 34:15-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 34

In this chapter is a prophecy of the taking and burning of Jerusalem; of the captivity of Zedekiah king of Judah; and of the destruction of the whole land, because of their breach of covenant to let servants go free. The time of this prophecy is observed, Jer 34:1,6,7; the taking and burning of the city, Jer 34:2; the carrying captive the king, who yet should not die a violent death, but in peace, and should have an honourable funeral, Jer 34:3-5; the covenant the king, princes, and people entered into, to let their servants go free, according to the law of God, which was at first observed, and afterwards retracted, Jer 34:8-11; which conduct is taken notice of and resented, Jer 34:13-16; and they are threatened with the sore judgments of God, sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity, the king, princes, priests, and people; and with the destruction, not on of Jerusalem, but of the rest of the cities of Judah, Jer 34:17-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 18

  • 1. Jeremiah 34:8
  • 2. 2 Kings 23:3; Nehemiah 10:29
  • 3. Jeremiah 7:10; Jeremiah 32:34
  • 4. 1 Samuel 15:11; Jeremiah 34:11; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:24
  • 5. Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 19:12
  • 6. Leviticus 26:34, 35; Esther 7:10; Daniel 6:24; Matthew 7:2
  • 7. Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 38:2
  • 8. Deuteronomy 28:25; Jeremiah 29:18
  • 9. Deuteronomy 17:2; Hosea 6:7; Hosea 8:1; Romans 2:8
  • 10. Genesis 15:10
  • 11. Jeremiah 34:10; Ezekiel 22:27; Zephaniah 3:3, 4
  • 12. Jeremiah 11:21; Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 22:25
  • 13. Deuteronomy 28:26; 1 Samuel 17:44, 46; 1 Kings 14:11; Jeremiah 16:4">Jeremiah 16:4; Psalms 79:2; Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 16:4">Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7
  • 14. 2 Kings 25:18-21; Jeremiah 32:3, 4; Jeremiah 39:6; Jeremiah 52:10, 24-27; Ezekiel 17:16
  • 15. Jeremiah 37:5-11
  • 16. Jeremiah 34:2; Jeremiah 39:1, 2, 8; Jeremiah 52:7, 13
  • 17. Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 9:11
  • 18. Jeremiah 33:10; Jeremiah 44:22

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