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A
Prophecy against Zedekiah |
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| Jeremiah 34:1 |
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of
the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against
Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying, |
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| Jeremiah 34:2 |
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"Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Go and speak
to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him: "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am giving
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire. |
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| Jeremiah 34:3 |
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'You will not escape from his hand, for you
will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will see the king
of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go
to Babylon.'"' |
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| Jeremiah 34:4 |
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"Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king
of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you, 'You will not die by the sword. |
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| Jeremiah 34:5 |
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'You will die in peace; and as spices were burned
for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn spices
for you; and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word,"
declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 34:6 |
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Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words
to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem |
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| Jeremiah 34:7 |
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when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting
against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish
and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah. |
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| Jeremiah 34:8 |
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD
after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem
to proclaim release to them: |
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| Jeremiah 34:9 |
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that each man should set free his male servant
and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one
should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage. |
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| Jeremiah 34:10 |
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And all the officials and all the people obeyed
who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant
and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in
bondage; they obeyed, and set them free. |
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| Jeremiah 34:11 |
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But afterward they turned around and took back
the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought
them into subjection for male servants and for female servants. |
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| Jeremiah 34:12 |
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying, |
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| Jeremiah 34:13 |
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"Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'I made a
covenant with your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage, saying, |
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| Jeremiah 34:14 |
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"At the end of seven years each of you shall
set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years,
you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or
incline their ear to Me. |
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| Jeremiah 34:15 |
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"Although recently you had turned and done what
is right in My sight, each man proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had
made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name. |
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| Jeremiah 34:16 |
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"Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each
man took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set
free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your
male servants and female servants."' |
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| Jeremiah 34:17 |
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"Therefore thus says the LORD, 'You have not
obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor.
Behold, I am proclaiming a release to you,' declares the LORD, 'to the sword,
to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms
of the earth. |
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| Jeremiah 34:18 |
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'I will give the men who have transgressed My
covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before
Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts-- |
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| Jeremiah 34:19 |
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the officials of Judah and the officials of
Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who
passed between the parts of the calf-- |
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| Jeremiah 34:20 |
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I will give them into the hand of their enemies
and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be
food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. |
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| Jeremiah 34:21 |
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'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
life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has gone away
from you. |
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| Jeremiah 34:22 |
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'Behold, I am going to command,' declares the
LORD, 'and I will bring them back to this city; and 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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