These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Jeremiah 34
Tanakh 22 verses
- 1 The which came unto from , when Nebuchadrezzar of , and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the land of his dominion, and all the peoples, fought against , and against all the cities thereof, saying:
- 2 Thus saith , the of : Go, and speak to Zedekiah of , and tell him: Thus saith : Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the of , and he shall burn it with fire;
- 3 and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the of , and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to .
- 4 Yet the of , O Zedekiah of : Thus saith concerning thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword;
- 5 thou shalt die in ; and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament thee: ‘Ah lord!’ for I have spoken the , saith .
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Then the spoke all these words unto Zedekiah of in ,
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- 7 when the of Babylon’s army fought against , and against all the cities of that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of as fortified cities.
- 8 The that came unto from , after that the Zedekiah had made a with all the people that were at , to proclaim liberty unto them;
- 9 that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother;
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and all the princes and all the people hearkened, that had entered into the to let every one his man-, and every one his maid-, go free, and not to make bondmen of them any more; they hearkened, and let them go;
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but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids;
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Zephaniah 1:6 Exodus 8:15 Exodus 8:8 Psalm 36:3 Proverbs 26:11 Matthew 12:43-45 Hosea 7:16 1 Samuel 24:19 Psalm 78:34-36 Psalm 125:5 1 Samuel 26:21 Jeremiah 34:21 1 Samuel 19:6-11 Ecclesiastes 8:11 Hosea 6:4 Romans 2:4-5 Exodus 14:3-9 2 Peter 2:20-22 Jeremiah 37:5 Exodus 10:17-20 Exodus 9:28 Exodus 9:34-35 - 12 therefore the of came to from , saying:
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Thus saith , the of : I made a with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of , out of the house of bondage, saying:
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Joshua 24:17 Judges 6:8 Deuteronomy 5:2-3 Exodus 24:3 Jeremiah 31:32 Exodus 24:7-8 Deuteronomy 5:27 Exodus 13:14 Deuteronomy 15:15 Deuteronomy 8:14 Jeremiah 7:22 Exodus 13:3 Jeremiah 11:7 Deuteronomy 6:12 Deuteronomy 29:1 Exodus 20:2 Deuteronomy 24:18 Deuteronomy 5:6 Jeremiah 11:4 Deuteronomy 13:10 Deuteronomy 7:8 Deuteronomy 16:12 Hebrews 8:10-11 -
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At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee’; but your fathers hearkened not unto Me, neither inclined their ear.
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Deuteronomy 15:12 2 Kings 17:13-14 1 Samuel 8:7-8 1 Kings 9:22 Jeremiah 32:30 2 Chronicles 36:16 Romans 7:24 Isaiah 50:1 Ezekiel 20:8 Zechariah 7:11-12 1 Kings 21:25 Jeremiah 34:8-9 Exodus 21:1-4 Ezekiel 20:4 Amos 8:6 Amos 2:6 2 Chronicles 28:10 Isaiah 58:6 Jeremiah 7:25-26 Exodus 23:10-11 Jeremiah 11:8-10 Romans 7:14-17 Nehemiah 9:30 - 15 And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in Mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a before Me in the house whereon My is called;
- 16 but ye turned and profaned My , and caused every man his , and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
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Therefore thus saith : Ye have not hearkened unto Me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim for you a liberty, saith , unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine; and I will make you a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Matthew 7:2 Deuteronomy 28:25 Galatians 6:7 Jeremiah 29:18 Daniel 6:24 Jeremiah 32:24 Deuteronomy 28:64 Esther 7:10 Jeremiah 15:4 Leviticus 26:34-35 James 2:13 Jeremiah 47:6-7 Jeremiah 24:9-10 Revelation 16:6 Jeremiah 15:2 Ezekiel 14:17-21 Lamentations 1:8 Deuteronomy 19:19 Judges 1:6-7 Jeremiah 32:36 Luke 6:37-38 Jeremiah 21:7 -
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And I will give the men that have transgressed My , that have not performed the words of the which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;
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- 19 the princes of , and the princes of , the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;
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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the fowls of the , and to the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 7:33 Jeremiah 11:21 Jeremiah 22:25 Jeremiah 21:7 Jeremiah 16:4 Jeremiah 19:7 1 Samuel 17:46 1 Samuel 17:44 1 Kings 16:4 1 Kings 14:11 2 Kings 9:34-37 Ezekiel 32:4 Ezekiel 29:5 Jeremiah 44:30 Revelation 19:17-21 Deuteronomy 28:26 Jeremiah 38:16 1 Kings 21:23-24 Ezekiel 39:17-20 Jeremiah 4:30 Jeremiah 49:37 - 21 And Zedekiah of and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the of Babylon’s army, that are gone up from you.
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Behold, I will command, saith , and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of a desolation, without inhabitant.
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Jeremiah 9:11 Jeremiah 39:1-2 Jeremiah 39:8 Jeremiah 33:10 Jeremiah 44:22 Jeremiah 52:7 Jeremiah 52:13 Lamentations 1:1 Jeremiah 38:23 Jeremiah 44:2-6 Isaiah 13:3 2 Kings 24:2-3 Jeremiah 21:4-10 Jeremiah 37:8-10 Jeremiah 4:7 Isaiah 10:5-7 Isaiah 64:10 Amos 3:6 Zechariah 7:14 2 Samuel 16:11 Isaiah 37:26 Matthew 22:7 Jeremiah 32:29 2 Chronicles 36:17 Micah 7:13 Zechariah 1:12 Ezekiel 33:27-28 Isaiah 24:12 Isaiah 6:11 Isaiah 45:1-3