JER-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,
JER-34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
JER-34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt
surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes
shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak
with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
JER-34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah;
Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
JER-34:5 [But] thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of
thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall
they burn [odours] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying],
Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
JER-34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto
Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
JER-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.
JER-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;
JER-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 wit], of a Jew his
brother.
JER-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 serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed,
and let [them] go.
JER-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.
JER-34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
JER-34:13 Thus saith 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,
JER-34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his
brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he
hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:
but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
ear.
JER-34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my
name:
JER-34:16 But ye 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.
JER-34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye 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,
saith 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.
JER-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 twain,
and passed between the parts thereof.
JER-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;
JER-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 meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to
the beasts of the earth.
JER-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.
JER-34:22 Behold, I will command, saith 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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