Jeremiah 34:12

Myles Coverdale Bible

For the which cause the worde of the LORDE came vnto Ieremy from the LORDE him self, sayenge:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,

King James Version
Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying,

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah:

Amplified Bible
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

World English Bible
Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Contemporary English Version
That's when the Lord told me to say to the people:

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore this word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai :

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then this message from the Lord came to Jeremiah:

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

Good News Translation
Then the Lord ,

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Literal Translation
For this reason the Word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

American Standard Version
Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Bible in Basic English
For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Therefore the worde of the Lord came to Ieremiah, from the Lord, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For whiche cause, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ieremie from the Lorde hym selfe, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into the yoke, and serve the king of Babylon.

English Revised Version
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad of the Lord to Jeremye, and seide,

Update Bible Version
Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New English Translation
That was when the Lord spoke to Jeremiah,

New King James Version
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New Living Translation
So the Lord gave them this message through Jeremiah:

New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:

THE MESSAGE
Then Jeremiah received this Message from God : " God , the God of Israel, says, ‘I made a covenant with your ancestors when I delivered them out of their slavery in Egypt. At the time I made it clear: "At the end of seven years, each of you must free any fellow Hebrew who has had to sell himself to you. After he has served six years, set him free." But your ancestors totally ignored me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Contextual Overview

⁸ These are the wordes that the LORDE spake vnto Ieremy the prophet, when Sedechias was agreed with all the people at Ierusalem, that there shulde be proclamed a liberte: ⁹ so that euery man shulde let fre go his seruaunt and handemayde, Hebrue & Hebruesse & no Iewe to holde his brother as a bonde man. ¹⁰ Now as they had consented, euen so they were obedient, & let them go fre. ¹¹ But afterwarde they repented, & toke agayne the seruauntes and handemaydens, whom they had letten go fre, and so made them bonde agayne. ¹² For the which cause the worde of the LORDE came vnto Ieremy from the LORDE him self, sayenge: ¹³ Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel: I made a couenaunt with youre fathers, when I brought them out of Egipte, (that they shulde no more be bondmen,) sayenge: ¹⁴ When seuen yeares are out, euery man shal let go fre his bought seruaunte an Hebrue, yf he haue serued him sixe yeares. But yor fathers obeied me not & herkened not vnto me ¹⁵ As for you, ye were now turned, & dyd right before me, in yt ye proclamed, euery ma to let his neghboure go fre, & in yt ye made a couenaunt before me, in the temple that beareth my name: ¹⁶ But yet ye haue turned youre selues agayne, and blasphemed my name: In this, yt euery man hath requyred his seruaunt and handemayden agayne, whom ye had letten go quyte and fre, and compelled them to serue you agayne, and to be youre bonde men. ¹⁷ And therfore thus saieth the LORDE: Ye haue not obeyed me, euery man to proclame fredome vnto his brother and neghbor: wherfore, I will call you vnto a fredome, saieth the LORDE: euen vnto the swearde, to the pestilence, and to honger, and will make you to be plaged in all the kyngdomes of the earth.

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Cross-References

Genesis 24:53
and toke forth Iewels of syluer and golde, and rayment, and gaue them vnto Rebecca. But vnto hir brethren and the mother, he gaue spyces.

Genesis 29:18
and Iacob loued her well, and sayde: I will serue the seuen yeare, for Rachel thy yongest doughter.

Genesis 31:41
Thus haue I serued twentye yeare in thy house, fourtene yeares for thy doughters, & sixe for thy flocke, and ten tymes hast thou chaunged my rewarde:

Genesis 34:16
then will we geue you oure doughters, and take youre doughters vnto vs, and dwell with you, and be one people.

Genesis 34:17
But yf ye wyll not herken vnto vs, to be circumcided, then wyl we take oure doughter, and go oure waye.

Genesis 34:25
And vpon the thirde daye (whan it was panefull to them) the two sonnes of Iacob Simeon and Leui Dinas brethren, toke euery man his swerde, and wente boldly in to the cite, and slew all the males,

Genesis 34:27
Then came Iacobs sonnes ouer the slayne, and spoyled the cite (because they had defyled their sister)

Genesis 34:28
and toke their shepe, oxen, Asses, and what so euer was in the cite and in the londe,

Genesis 34:29
and all maner of goodes: All their children and wyues toke they captyue, and spoyled all yt was in the houses.

2 Samuel 3:14
Dauid sent messaungers also vnto Ißboseth the sonne of Saul, sayenge: Geue me my wyfe Michol, whom I maried with an hundreth foreßkinnes of the Philistynes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord,.... The word of Jehovah the Son, from Jehovah the Father, because of this transgression of the princes and people, and as soon as it was committed by them; for it is plain, from Jeremiah 34:21, that it was before the Chaldean army returned to Jerusalem, after its departure from it:

saying; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is usual with commentators to say that, the laws dealing with the emancipation of the Hebrew slaves, as also that of the land resting during the sabbatical year, were not observed. The narrative teaches us the exact contrary. The manumission of the slaves on the present occasion was the spontaneous act of Zedekiah and the people. They knew of the law, and acknowledged its obligation. The observance of it was, no doubt, lax: the majority let their own selfish interests prevail; but the minority made might give way to right, and Zedekiah supported their efforts though only in a weak way.

Early in January, in the ninth year of Zedekiah, the Chaldaean army approached Jerusalem. The people made a covenant with the king, who appears as the abettor of the measure, to let their slaves go free. Possibly patriotism had its share in this: and as Jerusalem was strongly fortified, all classes possibly hoped that if the slaves were manumitted, they too would labor with a more hearty good-will in resisting the enemy. In the summer of the same year the Egyptians advanced to the rescue, and Nebuchadnezzar withdrew to meet their attack. The Jews with a strange levity, which sets them before us in a most despicable light, at once forced the manumitted slaves back into bondage. With noble indignation Jeremiah rebukes them for their treachery, assures them that the Chaldaean army will return, and warns them of the certainty of the punishment which they so richly merited.

Jeremiah 34:8

As the Chaldaean army swept over the country the wealthier classes would all flee to Jerusalem, taking with them their households. And as the Mosaic Law was probably more carefully kept there than in the country, the presence in these families of slaves who had grown grey in service may have given offence to the stricter classes at the capital.

To proclaim liberty unto them - The words are those of the proclamation of the year of jubile to the people, whereupon it became their duty to set their slaves free.

Jeremiah 34:9

Should serve himself of them - Should make them serve him (see Jeremiah 25:14).

Jeremiah 34:11

They turned, and caused ... to return - But afterward they again made the slaves return.

Jeremiah 34:13

The house of bondmen - The miserable prison in which, after being worked in the fields all day in gangs, the slaves were shut up at night.

Jeremiah 34:16

At their pleasure - literally, for themselves.

Jeremiah 34:17

I will make you to be removed into - “I will cause you to be a terror unto.” Men would shudder at them.

Jeremiah 34:18

The words ... - The Jews spoke of “cutting” a covenant, because the contracting parties cut a calf in twain and passed between the pieces. Thus cutting a covenant and cutting a calf in twain, meant the same thing.

Jeremiah 34:21

Which are gone up from you - i. e., which have departed for the present, and have raised the siege.