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Jeremiah 34
The Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 34:1 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,
2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king
of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, 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 king of
Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to
Babylon.
4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the Lord
of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former
kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will
lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord.
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in
Jerusalem,
7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the
cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for
these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, after that the king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to
proclaim liberty unto them;
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The king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all
the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim
liberty unto them
9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being
an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to
wit, of a Jew his brother.
10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the
covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his
maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then
they obeyed, and let them go.
11 But afterward 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.
12 Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
13 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers
in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house
of bondmen, saying,
14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew,
which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years,
thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers
hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
15 And ye were 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 the
house which is called by my name:
16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and
every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return,
and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto 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 the sword, to the pestilence, and
to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the
earth.
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,
19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the
priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the
calf;
20 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 meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the
earth.
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah 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 king of Babylon's army,
which are gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, 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 Judah a desolation without an
inhabitant.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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