Jer 34:1
34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when {a}
     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 its
     cities, saying,

     (a) Who commonly by Jeremiah was called Nebuchadrezzar and
         by others Nebuchadnezzar.

Jer 34:5
34:5 [But] thou shalt die in {b} peace: and with the burnings of
     thy fathers, the former kings who were before thee, so
     shall they burn [incense] for thee; and they will lament
     thee, [saying], Ah {c} lord!  for I have pronounced the
     word, saith the LORD.

     (b) Not of any violent death.
     (c) The Jews will lament for you their lord and king.

Jer 34:8
34:8 [This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
     after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people
     who [were] at Jerusalem, {d} to proclaim liberty to them;

     (d) When the enemy was at hand and they saw themselves in
         danger, they would seem holy, and so began some kind of
         reformation: but soon after they uttered their
         hypocrisy.

Jer 34:9
34:9 That every man should release his male {e} servant, and
     every man his female servant, [being] a Hebrew man or
     woman; that none should retain them in service, [that is],
     a Jew his brother.

     (e) According to the law, @Ex 21:2, De 15:12.

Jer 34:15
34:15 And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
      proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had
      made a covenant before me in {f} the house which is called
      by my name:

      (f) Meaning in the temple to declare that it was a most
          solemn and straight covenant made in the name of the
          Lord.

Jer 34:17
34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened to
      me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and
      every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty
      for you, saith the LORD, to {g} the sword, to the
      pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be
      removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

      (g) That is, I give the sword liberty to destroy you.

Jer 34:18
34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
      covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant
      which they had made before me, when they {h} cut the calf
      in two, and passed between the parts of it,

      (h) Concerning the manner of solemn covenant which the
          ancients used by passing between the two parts of a
          beast, to signify that the transgressor of the same
          covenant should be so divided in pieces, read
          @Ge 15:10.

Jer 34:21
34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give
      into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them
      that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of
      Babylon's army, which {i} are gone up from you.

      (i) To fight against the Egyptians, as in @Jer 37:11.



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