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…

The eunuchs. —See Note on Jeremiah 29:2. They were for the most part, if not always, of alien birth , as in the case of Ebed-melec…

He pursues the same subject: that perjury would not go unpunished. But here the manner of making an oath is described: they cut a calf into two…

The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem Here is a particular enumeration of the persons that had made the cove…

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…