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Jeremiah Chapter 34

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Jeremiah

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In Jeremiah 34 the prophet mourns the impending doom of Jerusalem, describing how the city's people have turned away from God and committed great sins. He warns that God will bring swift judgment, and that the temple will be defiled until the people repent. The chapter emphasizes God's faithfulness to deliver his people when they return to Him.

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(1) The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
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Jeremiah 34:7Jeremiah 32:2Jeremiah 39:1Jeremiah 39:2Jeremiah 39:3Jeremiah 52:4Jeremiah 52:5Jeremiah 52:6Jeremiah 52:7Jeremiah 52:8Jeremiah 52:9Jeremiah 52:10

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Daniel 4:34Daniel 7:14Daniel 11:5Jeremiah 35:11Jeremiah 39:5Ezekiel 29:18

(2) Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
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Jeremiah 22:1Jeremiah 22:2Jeremiah 37:1Jeremiah 37:2Jeremiah 37:3Jeremiah 37:4II Chronicles 36:11II Chronicles 36:12Jeremiah 34:22Jeremiah 21:4Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 32:3

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II Kings 25:7Jeremiah 29:3Jeremiah 29:22Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 52:11

(3) And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 34:21Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 32:4Jeremiah 37:17Jeremiah 38:18Jeremiah 39:4Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 52:7Jeremiah 52:8Jeremiah 52:9II Kings 25:4II Kings 25:5

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Jeremiah 32:4Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 50:45II Kings 24:12II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16

(4) Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(5) But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
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II Kings 22:20II Chronicles 34:28Ezekiel 17:16II Chronicles 16:14II Chronicles 21:19Daniel 2:46Jeremiah 22:18II Chronicles 21:20Lamentations 4:20

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Jeremiah 22:18II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8Ezekiel 16:55Ezekiel 32:16

(6) Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
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I Samuel 3:18I Samuel 15:16I Samuel 15:17I Samuel 15:18I Samuel 15:19I Samuel 15:20I Samuel 15:21I Samuel 15:22I Samuel 15:23I Samuel 15:24II Samuel 12:7II Samuel 12:8

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Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 38:14Jeremiah 28:5Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 37:3

(7) When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
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Jeremiah 34:1Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 8:14Jeremiah 11:12Deuteronomy 28:52Joshua 10:3Joshua 10:11Joshua 12:11Joshua 15:35Joshua 15:39II Kings 18:13II Kings 18:14

(8) This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
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II Kings 11:17II Kings 23:2II Kings 23:3II Chronicles 15:12II Chronicles 15:13II Chronicles 15:14II Chronicles 15:15II Chronicles 23:16II Chronicles 29:10II Chronicles 34:30II Chronicles 34:31II Chronicles 34:32

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Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Jeremiah 34:17Jeremiah 37:21Jeremiah 38:14Jeremiah 38:6

(9) That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
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Genesis 14:13Genesis 40:15Exodus 2:6Exodus 3:18Deuteronomy 15:12I Samuel 4:6I Samuel 4:9I Samuel 14:11II Corinthians 11:22Philippians 3:5Jeremiah 34:10Jeremiah 25:14

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Deuteronomy 15:12Jeremiah 34:10Deuteronomy 5:14Exodus 21:2Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(10) Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
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Jeremiah 26:10Jeremiah 26:16Jeremiah 36:12Jeremiah 36:24Jeremiah 36:25Jeremiah 38:4Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 3:11Isaiah 29:13Mark 6:20

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Jeremiah 34:9Deuteronomy 5:14Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Psalms 68:27Joshua 24:15

(11) But afterward 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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Jeremiah 34:21Jeremiah 37:5Exodus 8:8Exodus 8:15Exodus 9:28Exodus 9:34Exodus 9:35Exodus 10:17Exodus 10:18Exodus 10:19Exodus 10:20Exodus 14:3

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Jeremiah 34:16Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(12) Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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Jeremiah 38:6

(13) Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
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Jeremiah 31:32Exodus 24:3Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:8Deuteronomy 5:2Deuteronomy 5:3Deuteronomy 5:27Deuteronomy 29:1Hebrews 8:10Hebrews 8:11Jeremiah 7:22Jeremiah 11:4

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Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3

(14) At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
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Jeremiah 34:8Jeremiah 34:9Exodus 21:1Exodus 21:2Exodus 21:3Exodus 21:4Exodus 23:10Exodus 23:11Deuteronomy 15:12I Kings 9:22II Chronicles 28:10Isaiah 58:6

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Deuteronomy 15:12Jeremiah 7:24Jeremiah 7:26Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 44:5

(15) And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
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I Kings 21:27I Kings 21:28I Kings 21:29II Kings 10:30II Kings 10:31II Kings 12:2II Kings 14:3Isaiah 58:2Matthew 15:8Jeremiah 34:10Jeremiah 34:11Jeremiah 34:8

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Jeremiah 34:17Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3

(16) But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
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Jeremiah 34:11I Samuel 15:11Ezekiel 3:20Ezekiel 18:24Ezekiel 33:12Ezekiel 33:13Luke 8:13Luke 8:14Luke 8:15Exodus 20:7Leviticus 19:12Ezekiel 17:16

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Jeremiah 34:11Song of Solomon 6:13Leviticus 25:10Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14

(17) Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Leviticus 26:34Leviticus 26:35Deuteronomy 19:19Judges 1:6Judges 1:7Esther 7:10Daniel 6:24Matthew 7:2Luke 6:37Luke 6:38Galatians 6:7James 2:13

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Jeremiah 29:18Ezekiel 7:15Jeremiah 34:15Galatians 5:13Leviticus 25:10Isaiah 61:1

(18) And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
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Deuteronomy 17:2Joshua 7:11Joshua 23:16Hosea 6:7Hosea 8:1Genesis 15:10Genesis 15:17Genesis 15:18Psalms 50:1

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Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:13Genesis 17:19Deuteronomy 29:1

(19) The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
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Jeremiah 34:10Ezekiel 22:27Ezekiel 22:28Ezekiel 22:29Ezekiel 22:30Ezekiel 22:31Daniel 9:6Daniel 9:8Daniel 9:12Micah 7:1Micah 7:2Micah 7:3

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Psalms 68:27Matthew 19:12I Samuel 9:4Numbers 7:2Numbers 7:10Joshua 9:18

(20) I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 4:30Jeremiah 11:21Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 22:25Jeremiah 38:16Jeremiah 44:30Jeremiah 49:37Jeremiah 7:33Jeremiah 16:4Jeremiah 19:7I Samuel 17:44I Samuel 17:46

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Jeremiah 19:7Psalms 79:2Isaiah 18:6Deuteronomy 28:26II Kings 16:15Jeremiah 7:33

(21) And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
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Jeremiah 34:3Jeremiah 34:4Jeremiah 34:5Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 52:10Jeremiah 52:24Jeremiah 52:25Jeremiah 52:26Jeremiah 52:27II Kings 25:18II Kings 25:19II Kings 25:20

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Psalms 68:27Jeremiah 36:12Jeremiah 38:17Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 44:30Jeremiah 52:8

(22) Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
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II Samuel 16:11II Kings 24:2II Kings 24:3II Chronicles 36:17Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 10:7Isaiah 13:3Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 45:1Isaiah 45:2Isaiah 45:3

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

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