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…

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…

Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had
entered into the covenant
The…

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, the threat is given after the transgression of the covenant.

The author first speaks of the transgression of the covenant, a…