Commentators usually say that the laws dealing with the emancipation of the Hebrew slaves, as well as the law of the land resting during the sabbat…

You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. —These words point to the solemnity with which…

Though we do not read that what the Prophet relates here was done by God’s command, yet we may easily gather that Zedekiah the king had been warned…

And you were now turned
Or, "today indeed you were turned" ^F18 some little time ago, indeed, it must be o…

A Jew should not be held in servitude for more than seven years. This law they and their fathers had broken. And when there was some hope that the …

1. Here, he threatens those who transgressed.

   1. First, he speaks of the guilt of their fathers when he speaks of the covenant…