Jeremiah 34:11

But later on, they turned back. And they took back again their man servants and their woman servants, whom they had released to be free. And they subjugated them as male and female servants.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10Then all the leaders and all the people who entered into the pact, heard that each one should release his man servant, and each one his woman servant, to be free, and that they should no longer rule over them. Therefore, they listened, and they released them.

12And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

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Cross References

Exodus 8:15Then Pharaoh, seeing that relief had been provided, hardened his own heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had instructed.

Exodus 9:34Then Pharaoh, seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders had ceased, added to his sin.

Exodus 14:3And Pharaoh will say about the sons of Israel, ‘They have been confined by the land; the desert has enclosed them.’

1 Samuel 24:19And you have revealed this day the good that you have done for me: how the Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

Psalms 36:3Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.

Psalms 125:5Those who sow in tears shall reap in exultation.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 34:9-22

Transient Reformation; The Servants Re-enslaved. ( b. c. 589.) 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; 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant,… Read the whole commentary →

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