Jeremiah 34

Jeremiah 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.

But thou shalt die of thy fair death, not violent, but natural; and shalt be honourably buried, after a princely manner, with store of sweet odours burnt about thy coffin, and in the vault where thou shalt be laid.

Jeremiah 34:8

After that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them.

After that king Zedekiah, being admonished of this point of the law, had dealt with the people effectually, to dismiss those of their own nation out of their service, in the end of the seventh year, according to the prescript of the law; and proclamation was made hereof accordingly.

Jeremiah 34:10

Then they obeyed, and let them go.

They yielded for the time, and gave way for the performance of this edict; and gave freedom to their Jewish servants.

Jeremiah 34:11

But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them in subjection for servants and for handmaids.

But afterward they repented of their good act, and injuriously recalled their lately dismissed servants and handmaids, into their former servitude.

Jeremiah 34:17

Behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine.

Behold, I do give full liberty to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine, to seize upon you.

Jeremiah 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, &c.

Ye know, ye made a covenant with me, in that ancient solemn manner, that was used by your father Abraham; wherein you, dividing the calf into halves, passed between the two halves of it, wishing, by way of execration, to be so divided, if you did not observe this promise and covenant of yours: and now, ye have palpably broken this part of your covenant with me; therefore I will give the transgressors hereof into the hand of their enemies.

Jeremiah 34:21

Into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.

Into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which is now, for the time, departed from your siege, to go up against Egypt, but, however ye have vainly imagined, shall return to your cost. See chap. xxxvii. verse 5.