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          DASV: Jeremiah 34    

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his entire army from all
the kingdoms and peoples of the earth that were under his rule,
were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying:
2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says, Go, speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD
says, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.
3 You will not escape out of his hand, but will surely be
captured and delivered into his hand. You will look the king
of Babylon straight in the eye, and he will speak with you
face to face, and you will go to Babylon.
4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah:
This is what the LORD says concerning you, you will not die
by the sword.
5 You will die in peace, and just as people burned incense
for your fathers, the former kings who were before you,
so they will burn incense at your burial. They will grieve
for you saying, 'Alas, Lord!' For I have given you my word,
says the LORD.'"

6 Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem,
and against all the towns of Judah that were left, including
Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified
cities of Judah left.
8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after the
king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that
were in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty freeing
all slaves.
9 Everyone was to set free his male and female Hebrew slaves,
so that no one was to keep a fellow Jew in slavery.
10 All the officials and all the people obeyed, who had
entered into the covenant that everyone would let his
male and female slaves go free, so that none of them
would have slaves anymore. They obeyed, and released them.
11 But afterwards they changed their minds, and forced
the male and female slaves whom they had released,
back into slavery again.
12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from
the LORD:
13 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: I made
a covenant with your forefathers in the day that I brought
them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery, saying,
14 'At the end of seven years you must release any fellow
Hebrew who has been sold to you, and has served you for
six years. You must set them free. But your fathers did
not obey me or listen to me.
15 You recently turned and did what was right in my eyes,
in proclaiming liberty to each other. You made a covenant
before me in the house that is called by my name.
16 But now you have turned and profaned my name, by
everyone forcing his male and female servants, whom you
had set free at their wishes, back into slavery again as
male and female slaves.
17 Therefore this is what the LORD says. You have not
obeyed me by granting freedom, each one to his brother
and countryman. So I grant you freedom to die by the
sword, famine and plague, says the LORD. I will make
what happens to you to be seen as a horror among all
the kingdoms of the earth.
18 This is what I will give those who have violated my
covenant and not kept the terms of the covenant that
they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and
passed between its parts,
19 including the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land,
who passed between the parts of the calf.
20 I will hand them over to their enemies, and to those
who are seeking their lives. Their dead bodies will be
food for the birds of the heavens and the animals of
the earth.
21 Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will hand
over to their enemies, to those seeking their lives. I
will deliver them over to the king of Babylon's army
that has withdrawn from you.
22 Look, I will issue a command, says the LORD, and bring
them back to this city. They will fight against it,
capture and burn it with fire. I will also make the
towns of Judah a desolation without inhabitant."

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