Jeremiah 34:18 NASB,NIV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 34:1-22

SECTION 2 (Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 ). (continued). As we have previously seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 divides up into four main subsections, which are as follows: 1. Commencing With A Speech In The Temple Jeremiah Warns Of What Is Coming And Repudiates The Promises Of The False Prophets (Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 29:32). 2. Following The Anguish To Come Promises Are Given Of Eventual Restoration, Central To Which is A New Covenant Written In... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 34:8-22

Having Set Free Their Hebrew Slaves In Accordance With The Sinai Covenant The Inhabitants Of Jerusalem Renege On Their Commitment, Bringing Down On Themselves The Wrath Of YHWH And The Certainty Of Babylonian Subjection (Jeremiah 34:8-22 ). In the face of the Babylonian threat King Zedekiah managed to persuade the people of Jerusalem that it was in their interests to ‘proclaim freedom’ to their Hebrew slaves, in accordance with the requirements of the Book of the Covenant (Exodus 21:2 ff.;... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 34:8-22

Jeremiah 34:8-Song of Solomon : . The Cancelled Liberation of Slaves.— In the interval during which the besiegers had withdrawn ( Jeremiah 34:21; cf. Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 37:5), Jeremiah is commissioned to condemn the breach of the promises made by king and people during the earlier straits. They had agreed to emancipate all Hebrew slaves, and had solemnly covenanted to this effect. They broke this agreement (when the Babylonian peril seemed to be removed), and in so doing they “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 34:18

This was a ceremony which they used in making of covenants, not without something of a warrant from a Divine precedent, Genesis 15:9,Genesis 15:10; it is said, Jeremiah 34:18, that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham (that covenant was a promise that Abraham’s seed should possess the land of Canaan). Genesis 15:8. Abraham said unto God, Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? Genesis 15:9, God bids him take an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 34:1-22

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES:—1. Chronology of the Chapter. Section I., Jeremiah 34:1-7, is in subject connected with chap. Jeremiah 32:1-5. These verses, however, seem slightly to antedate that chapter, for observe the words (Jeremiah 34:2), “Go and speak to Zedekiah,” implying that Jeremiah had not yet been imprisoned; whereas in Jeremiah 32:2, Jeremiah is “shut up in the court of the prison.” This section must date at the very beginning of the Chaldean invasion, and follows closely upon the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 34:1-22

Chapter 34Now we come to a chronologically new set of prophecies, and this is one that Zedekiah threw him in jail for back in the thirty-first chapter, thirty-second chapter.The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 34:1-22

Jeremiah 34:2 . Go and speak to Zedekiah. This revelation was delivered in the tenth year of his reign, and would have saved the land, when all hopes of safety were fled. Jeremiah 34:4 . Thou shalt not die by the sword. Mercy is mixed with judgment. The king had spared Jeremiah’s life twice, when the priests sought to kill him, and afterwards, when the princes prayed the king to put him to death, because his predictions discouraged the soldiers; now the Lord spared the king’s life.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 34:18

Jer 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, Ver. 18. That have transgressed my covenant. ] His covenant he calleth it by a weighty emphasis, because about a business by him commanded, and wherein he was engaged, not as a bare spectator, but as a severe avenger of their perjury. When they cut the calf in twain. ] To... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 34:18

have transgressed: Deuteronomy 17:2, Joshua 7:11, Joshua 23:16, Hosea 6:7, Hosea 8:1 when: This was the ancient mode of making a covenant. - See note on Deuteronomy 29:12, and see note on Joshua 9:7. Genesis 15:10, Genesis 15:17, Genesis 15:18, Psalms 50:1 Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 29:10 - to make a covenant read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 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,Cut the calf — It seems these Jews in their making of the solemn covenant with God about releasing their servants used this rite; they caused a calf, or heifer to be cut in pieces, and the parts to be laid in the temple, right over-against one another; then they recited this covenant,... read more