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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 34:18

Jeremiah 34:18. When they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts In order to ratify the covenant, they killed a calf, or young bullock, which they cut in two, and placing the two parts at some distance from each other, they passed between them; signifying by this rite that they consented to be served in the like manner, in case they violated their part of the covenant. We learn from the Holy Scriptures, and from heathen authors, that the same or similar ceremonies were in use in... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 34:1-22

Treacherous slave-owners (34:1-22)Again Jeremiah tells King Zedekiah that Jerusalem will fall to the Babylonians. Zedekiah himself will be taken to Babylon but will not be executed. When he eventually dies he will be given a fitting royal funeral (34:1-7).Earlier, when the Babylonians laid siege to Jerusalem, Zedekiah issued a command that slave-owners were to release all their Hebrew slaves. He no doubt hoped that his action would win God’s favour, and he probably thought it had succeeded when... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 34:18

men. Hebrew, plural of 'enosh. App-14 . transgressed. Hebrew. 'abar. App-44 . cut the calf in twain. Compare Genesis 15:9 , Genesis 15:10 . passed between, &c. Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 15:10-17 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 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 made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof."For more on the nature of the covenant here, see under Jeremiah 34:8,10 above. It was the kind of covenant that God made with Abraham in Genesis 15:10ff, in which birds and/or animals were divided, and the parties of the covenant passed between the divided portions of the creatures that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 34:18

Jeremiah 34:18. When they cut the calf in twain, &c.— That is, "When they made a solemn covenant and alliance with me, wherein it was usual to pass between the parts of the sacrifice; as Abraham is described to have done." Genesis 15:9; Genesis 15:21. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 34:18

18. passed between the parts thereof—The contracting parties in the "covenant" (not here the law in general, but their covenant made before God in His house to emancipate their slaves, Jeremiah 34:8; Jeremiah 34:9) passed through the parts of the animal cut in two, implying that they prayed so to be cut in sunder (Matthew 24:51; Greek, "cut in two") if they should break the covenant (Genesis 15:10; Genesis 15:17). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 34:8-22

Treachery against servants 34:8-22This incident happened during the respite in the siege, as did those recorded in Jeremiah 32:1-15; Jeremiah 37-38; and Jeremiah 39:15-18 (cf. Jeremiah 34:21-22). The year was about 588 B.C. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 34:18-20

The Lord would give all the people who had broken the covenant, regardless of their social position, into the hand of their enemy. They would die without the privilege of a burial; birds and beasts would consume their carcasses (cf. Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Deuteronomy 28:26). They had used a typical covenant-making ritual. They had cut a young calf in two and the parties of the covenant passed between the halves (cf. Genesis 15:10; Genesis 15:17)."The fate of the animal was... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 34:1-22

Jeremiah’s Eighteenth Prophecy (Reign of Zedekiah). The Fate of Zedekiah. The Treatment of Hebrew SlavesEarly in the campaign of Nebuchadnezzar, whose scheme of conquest included all the region as far as Egypt inclusive, the policy urged by Jeremiah was that Zedekiah should make the best terms he could. In this chapter we seem to have a sort of abbreviated memorandum of the conditional promise, which in that case the prophet was commissioned to announce to Zedekiah, viz. peace followed by... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 34:18

(18) When they cut the calf in twain . . .—The passage is interesting, as showing the survival of one of the oldest rites of Patriarchal times. So, when Jehovah made a covenant with Abraham, the victims that had been slain were cut up and arranged opposite each other, and when the “burning lamp” passed between the pieces it was the token that Jehovah had completed the covenant, even as men complete it (Genesis 15:10-17). The implied thought thus symbolised was that the parties to the contract... read more