Jer 34 | TSK | STEP | Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city. The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants, contrary to the covenant of God, re-assume them. Jeremiah, for their disobedience, gives them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies. A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. The word.This chapter contains two discourses, one concerning the taking of the city, and Zedekiah's captivity and death, ver. 1-7; and the other containing an invective against the inhabitants of Jerusalem for retaining their Hebrew slaves, ver. 8-22; both of which were delivered in the tenth year of Zedekiah. when. all the kingdoms. of his dominion. Heb. the dominion of his hand.

Jeremiah 34

1 Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city.

8 The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants, contrary to the covenant of God, re-assume them.

12 Jeremiah, for their disobedience, gives them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies.

A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. The word.This chapter contains two discourses, one concerning the taking of the city, and Zedekiah's captivity and death, ver. 1-7; and the other containing an invective against the inhabitants of Jerusalem for retaining their Hebrew slaves, ver. 8-22; both of which were delivered in the tenth year of Zedekiah.

when.

7; 32:2; 39:1-3; 52:4-11; 2Ki 25:1-9; 2Ch 36:12-17

all the kingdoms.

1:15; 27:5-7; Da 2:37,38; 4:1,22; 5:19

of his dominion. Heb. the dominion of his hand.

Go.

22:1,2; 37:1-4; 2Ch 36:11,12

Behold.

22; 21:4,10; 32:3,28,29; 37:8-10; 38:23; 39:8

And thou.

21; 21:7; 32:4; 37:17; 38:18; 39:4,5; 52:7-9; 2Ki 25:4,5

and thine.

39:6,7; 52:10,11; 2Ki 25:6,7; Eze 12:13; 17:18-20; 21:25

he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth. Heb. his mouthshall speak to thy mouth.

But thou.

2Ki 22:20; 2Ch 34:28; Eze 17:16

and with.

2Ch 16:14; 21:19

so.

Da 2:46

and they.

22:18; 2Ch 21:20; La 4:20

1Sa 3:18; 15:16-24; 2Sa 12:7-12; 1Ki 21:19; 22:14; Eze 2:7; Mt 14:4

Ac 20:27

fought against.

1; 4:5; 8:14; 11:12; De 28:52

Lachish.

Jos 10:3,11; 12:11; 15:35,39; 2Ki 18:13,14; 19:8; Mic 1:13

for.

2Ch 11:5-10; 27:4

had.

2Ki 11:17; 23:2,3; 2Ch 15:12-15; 23:16; 29:10; 34:30-33; Ne 9:38

Ne 10:1-27

to proclaim.

14,17; Ex 21:2-4; 23:10,11; Le 25:10,39-46; De 15:12; Ne 5:1-13

Isa 61:1

Hebrew.

Ge 14:13; 40:15; Ex 2:6; 3:18; De 15:12; 1Sa 4:6,9; 14:11; 2Co 11:22

Php 3:5

serve.

10; 25:14; 27:7; 30:8; 1Co 6:8

when.

26:10,16; 36:12,24,25; 38:4

then.

3:10,11; Isa 29:13; Mr 6:20

21; 37:5; Ex 8:8,15; 9:28,34,35; 10:17-20; 14:3-9; 1Sa 19:6-11

1Sa 24:19; 26:21; Ps 36:3; 78:34-36; 125:5; Pr 26:11; Ec 8:11

Ho 6:4; 7:16; Zep 1:6; Mt 12:43-45; Ro 2:4,5; 2Pe 2:20-22

I made.

31:32; Ex 24:3,7,8; De 5:2,3,27; 29:1; Heb 8:10,11

in the.

7:22; 11:4,7; De 7:8; 15:15; 16:12; 24:18; Jos 24:17; Jud 6:8

out of.

Ex 13:3,14; De 5:6; 6:12; 8:14; 13:10; Jos 24:17; Jud 6:8

At the.

8,9; Ex 21:1-4; 23:10,11; De 15:12; 1Ki 9:22; 2Ch 28:10; Isa 58:6

Am 2:6; 8:6

been sold. or, sold himself.

1Ki 21:25; Isa 50:1; Ro 7:14-17,24

but.It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles (ch. 36:21) assigns this as a reason for the captivity, "that the land might enjoy her sabbaths." Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years.

7:25,26; 11:8-10; 32:30; 1Sa 8:7,8; 2Ki 17:13,14; 2Ch 36:16

Ne 9:30; Eze 20:4,8; Zec 7:11,12

ye.

1Ki 21:27-29; 2Ki 10:30,31; 12:2; 14:3; Isa 58:2; Mt 15:8

now. Heb. to-day. in proclaiming.

10,11

ye had.

8; 2Ki 23:3; Ne 10:29; Ps 76:11; 119:106

which is called by my name. Heb. whereupon my name iscalled.

7:10,11

ye turned.

11; 1Sa 15:11; Eze 3:20; 18:24; 33:12,13; Lu 8:13-15

polluted.

Ex 20:7; Le 19:12; Eze 17:16-19; 20:39; 39:7; Mal 1:7,12

and brought.

Mt 18:28-34

behold.When they proclaimed liberty to their slaves, God restrained the sword from cutting them off; but now having resumed their authority over them, He proclaimed liberty to these dire judgments to seize upon, and destroy them.

Le 26:34,35; De 19:19; Jud 1:6,7; Es 7:10; Da 6:24; Mt 7:2

Lu 6:37,38; Ga 6:7; Jas 2:13; Re 16:6

to the sword.

15:2; 21:7; 24:10; 32:24,36; 47:6,7; Eze 14:17-21

I will.

15:4; 24:9,10; 29:18; De 28:25,64

to be removed. Heb. for a removing.

La 1:8; *marg:

have transgressed.

De 17:2; Jos 7:11; 23:16; Ho 6:7; 8:1

when.This was the ancient mode of making a covenant. (See on De 29:12 Jos 9:7.)

Ge 15:10,17,18; Ps 50:1

princes.

10; Eze 22:27-31; Da 9:6,8,12; Mic 7:1-5; Zep 3:3,4

the eunuchs.

29:2; 38:7; 2Ki 24:12,15; *marg:

and into.

4:30; 11:21; 21:7; 22:25; 38:16; 44:30; 49:37

and their.

7:33; 16:4; 19:7; 1Sa 17:44,46; 1Ki 14:11; 16:4; 21:23,24

2Ki 9:34-37; Eze 29:5; 32:4; 39:17-20; Re 19:17-21

Zedekiah.

3-5; 39:6; 52:10,24-27; 2Ki 25:18-21; La 4:20; Eze 17:16

which are.

37:5-11

I will command.

2Sa 16:11; 2Ki 24:2,3; 2Ch 36:17; Isa 10:5-7; 13:3; 37:26; 45:1-3

Am 3:6; Mt 22:7

cause.They did return, and reinvested the city; and, after an obstinate defence, took it, plundered it, and burnt it to the ground, taking Zedekiah, his princes, and people, captive.

37:8-10

shall fight.

21:4-10; 32:29; 38:23; 39:1,2,8; 52:7,13

and I will.

9:11; 33:10; 44:2-6,22; Isa 6:11; 24:12; 64:10; La 1:1; Eze 33:27,28

Mic 7:13; Zec 1:12; 7:14