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Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 34

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Chapter 34 of Jeremiah—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when 1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with 2all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,
  2. “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘3Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him: “Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, 4I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and 5he will burn it with fire.
  3. 6You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will 7see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you [a]face to face, and you will go to Babylon.’”’
  4. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you, ‘You will not die by the sword.
  5. You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will 8burn spices for you; and 9they will lament for you, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word,” declares the LORD.
  6. ¶ Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke 10all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem
  7. when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, 11Lachish and 12Azekah, for they alone remained as 13fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
  8. ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had 14made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to 15proclaim [b]release to them:
  9. that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a 16Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that 17no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.
  10. And all the 18officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.
  11. But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.
  12. ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
  13. “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘I 19made a covenant with your forefathers in the day that I 20brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, saying,
  14. “21At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who [c]has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers 22did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.
  15. Although recently you had turned and 23done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming [d]release to his neighbor, and you had 24made a covenant before Me 25in the house which is called by My name.
  16. Yet you 26turned and 27profaned My name, and each man [e]took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male servants and female servants.”’
  17. ¶ “Therefore thus says the LORD, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [f]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am 28proclaiming a [g]release to you,’ declares the LORD, ‘to the 29sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a 30terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  18. I will give the men who have 31transgressed My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they 32cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—
  19. the 33officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—
  20. I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who 34seek their life. And their 35dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
  21. 36Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has 37gone away from you.
  22. Behold, I am going to command,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and 38take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a 39desolation 40without inhabitant.’”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit mouth to mouth
  2. ^ Or liberty
  3. ^ Or has sold himself
  4. ^ Or liberty
  5. ^ Lit caused them to return
  6. ^ Or liberty
  7. ^ Or liberty

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Ki 25:1; Je 32:2; 39:1; 52:4
  2. ^ Je 1:15; 27:7; Da 2:37, 38
  3. ^ 2Ch 36:11, 12; Je 22:1, 2; 37:1, 2
  4. ^ Je 21:10; 32:3; 34:22; 37:8-10
  5. ^ Je 32:29
  6. ^ 2Ki 25:4, 5; Je 21:7; 32:4; 34:21
  7. ^ 2Ki 25:6, 7; Je 39:6, 7
  8. ^ 2Ch 16:14; 21:19
  9. ^ Je 22:18
  10. ^ 1Sa 3:18; 15:16-24
  11. ^ Jos 10:3, 5; 2Ki 14:19; 18:14; Is 36:2
  12. ^ Jos 10:10; 2Ch 11:9
  13. ^ 2Ch 11:5-10
  14. ^ 2Ki 11:17; 23:2, 3
  15. ^ Ex 21:2; Le 25:10, 39-46; Ne 5:1-13; Is 58:6; Je 34:14, 17
  16. ^ Ge 14:13; Ex 2:6
  17. ^ Le 25:39
  18. ^ Je 26:10, 16
  19. ^ Ex 24:3, 7, 8; De 5:2, 3, 27; Je 31:32
  20. ^ Ex 20:2
  21. ^ Ex 21:2; De 15:12; 1Ki 9:22
  22. ^ 1Sa 8:7, 8; 2Ki 17:13, 14
  23. ^ Je 34:8
  24. ^ 2Ki 23:3; Ne 10:29
  25. ^ Je 7:10f; 32:34
  26. ^ 1Sa 15:11; Je 34:11; Eze 3:20; 18:24
  27. ^ Ex 20:7; Le 19:12
  28. ^ Le 26:34, 35; Es 7:10; Da 6:24; Mt 7:2
  29. ^ Je 32:24; 38:2
  30. ^ De 28:25; Je 29:18
  31. ^ De 17:2; Ho 6:7; 8:1; Ro 2:8
  32. ^ Ge 15:10
  33. ^ Je 34:10; Eze 22:27; Zp 3:3, 4
  34. ^ Je 11:21; 21:7; 22:25
  35. ^ De 28:26; 1Sa 17:44, 46; 1Ki 14:11; 16:4; Ps 79:2; Je 7:33; 16:4; 19:7
  36. ^ 2Ki 25:18-21; Je 32:3, 4; 39:6; 52:10, 24-27; Eze 17:16
  37. ^ Je 37:5-11
  38. ^ Je 34:2; 39:1, 2, 8; 52:7, 13
  39. ^ Je 4:7; 9:11
  40. ^ Je 33:10; 44:22

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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