The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 34:10 (ESV)
And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.

 

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Jeremiah 34:11

But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.

 

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Jeremiah 34:12 (BSB)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 34:13 (NKJV)
“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘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 bondage, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 34:14 (NKJV)
“At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to him; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear.

 

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Jeremiah 34:15 (CSB)

Today you repented and did what pleased me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbor.
You made a covenant before me at the house that bears my name.

 

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Jeremiah 34:16 (CSB)

But you have changed your minds and profaned my name. Each has taken back his male and female slaves
who had been set free to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 34:17 (NIV)

‘Therefore this is what the Lord says: you have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people.
So I now proclaim “freedom” for you, declares the Lord – “freedom” to fall by the sword, plague and famine.
I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 34:18 (NIV)

Those who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me,
I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.

 

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Jeremiah 34:19 (ESV)
the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.

 

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Jeremiah 34:20 (NKJV)
I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

 

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Jeremiah 34:21 (ESV)
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you.

 

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Jeremiah 34:22 (NKJV)
Behold, I will command,’ says the LORD, ‘and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’ ”

 

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Jeremiah 35:1 (NKJV)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 35:2 (NKJV)
“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 35:3 (NIV)

So I went to get Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons –
the whole family of the Rekabites.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 35:4 (NIV)

I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God.
It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

 

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Jeremiah 35:5 (NKJV)
Then I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine.”

 

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Jeremiah 35:6 (ESV)
But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.

 

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Jeremiah 35:7 (CSB)

You must not build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Rather, you must live in tents
your whole life, so you may live a long time on the soil where you stay as a resident alien.’