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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 34:14 - 34:14
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At the: Jer 34:8-9; Exo 21:1-4, Exo 23:10-11; Deu 15:12; 1Ki 9:22; 2Ch 28:10; Isa 58:6; Amo 2:6, Amo 8:6
been sold: or, sold himself, 1Ki 21:25; Isa 50:1; Rom 7:14-17, Rom 7:24
but: It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles (Jer 36:21) assigns this as a reason for the captivity, "that the land might enjoy her sabbaths." Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years. Jer 7:25-26, Jer 11:8-10, Jer 32:30; 1Sa 8:7-8; 2Ki 17:13-14; 2Ch 36:16; Neh 9:30; Eze 20:4, Eze 20:8; Zec 7:11-12