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All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
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A Moment of Obedience
Commentators observe that the people of Jerusalem did, in fact, obey. They heard the terms of the covenant, understood the law, and released their slaves. John Gill even calls this initial act "praiseworthy." This moment of obedience, however, makes their subsequent betrayal even more shocking and highlights the gravity of breaking a vow made to God.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant The…
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the threat is given after the transgression of the covenant.
The author first speaks of the transgression of the covenant, a…