Jeremiah Chapter 34

• Jeremiah 34:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 34:2
  The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under h...
• Jeremiah 34:3
  “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, the LORD says, “Behold, I will give this city into the han...
• Jeremiah 34:4
  You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he wil...
• Jeremiah 34:5
  “Yet hear the LORD’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah. The LORD says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword.
• Jeremiah 34:6
  You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lam...
• Jeremiah 34:7
  Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
• Jeremiah 34:8
  when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah;...
• Jeremiah 34:9
  The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to the...
• Jeremiah 34:10
  that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should make bondser...
• Jeremiah 34:11
  All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant and everyone his female servant...
• Jeremiah 34:12
  but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return, and brought them into subjection for servan...
• Jeremiah 34:13
  Therefore the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
• Jeremiah 34:14
  “The LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ...
• Jeremiah 34:15
  At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You sha...
• Jeremiah 34:16
  You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me i...
• Jeremiah 34:17
  but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to retur...
• Jeremiah 34:18
  Therefore the LORD says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclai...
• Jeremiah 34:19
  I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me when they cut the ca...
• Jeremiah 34:20
  the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf.
• Jeremiah 34:21
  I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of t...
• Jeremiah 34:22
  “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of...
• Jeremiah 34:23
  Behold, I will command,” says the LORD, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will mak...