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but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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Repentance Born of Fear
Commentators highlight that the people's decision to free their slaves was not a genuine change of heart but a desperate bargain made under the terror of the Babylonian siege. As soon as the threat seemed to pass, they immediately went back on their word. This serves as a powerful warning that reformation which springs only from terror is seldom lasting.
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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
But afterwards they turned From the law of God, and their own agreement, and returned to their former usage of their…
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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…
