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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 34
34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of
his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against
all the cities thereof, saying,
34:2 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
34:3 And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be
taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall behold the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and
you shall go to Babylon.
34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus
says the LORD of you, You shall not die by the sword:
34:5 But you shall die in peace: and with the burnings of your fathers,
the former kings which were before you, so shall they burn odours for you;
and they will lament you, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word,
says the LORD.
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words unto Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
34:7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against
Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
34:8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after
that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were
at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant,
being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself
of them, to know, of a Jew his brother.
34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered
into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and
every one his maidservant, go free, that none should make use of them any
more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids,
whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection
for servants and for handmaids.
34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
34:13 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondmen, saying,
34:14 At the end of seven years let all of you go every man his brother
an Hebrew, which has been sold unto you; and when he has served you six
years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers hearkened not
unto me, neither inclined their ear.
34:15 And all of you were now turned, and had done right in my sight,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and all of you had made
a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
34:16 But all of you turned and polluted my name, and caused every
man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty
at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto
you for servants and for handmaids.
34:17 Therefore thus says the LORD; All of you have not hearkened unto
me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to
his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to
the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which
have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before
me, when they cut the calf in two, and passed between the parts thereof,
34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,
and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the
parts of the calf;
34:20 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
food unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life,
and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from
you.
34:22 Behold, I will command, says 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 without an
inhabitant.
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