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Jer 34:14 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

At the		Jer 34:8,9; Exd 21:1-4; Exd 23:10,11; Deu 15:12; 1Ki 9:22; 2Ch 28:10; Isa 58:6; Amo 2:6; Amo 8:6
been sold		or, sold himself. 1Ki 21:25; Isa 50:1; Rom 7:14-17,24
but		"It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles ( 2Ch 36:21; assigns this as a reason for the captivity, ""that the land might enjoy her sabbaths."" Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years. Jer 7:25,26; Jer 11:8-10; Jer 32:30; 1Sa 8:7,8; 2Ki 17:13,14; 2Ch 36:16; Neh 9:30; Eze 20:4,8; Zec 7:11,12"

Correlating Passages

At the

	Jer 34:8	[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;
	Jer 34:9	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.
	Exd 21:1	Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
	Exd 21:2	If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
	Exd 21:3	If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
	Exd 21:4	If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
	Exd 23:10	And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
	Exd 23:11	But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.
	Deu 15:12	[And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
	1Ki 9:22	But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
	2Ch 28:10	And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
	Isa 58:6	[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
	Amo 2:6	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
	Amo 8:6	That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

been sold

	1Ki 21:25	But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
	Isa 50:1	Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
	Rom 7:14	For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
	Rom 7:15	For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
	Rom 7:16	If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.
	Rom 7:17	Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
	Rom 7:24	O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

but

	2Ch 36:21	To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
	Jer 7:25	Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them]:
	Jer 7:26	Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
	Jer 11:8	Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.
	Jer 11:9	And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
	Jer 11:10	They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
	Jer 32:30	For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
	1Sa 8:7	And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
	1Sa 8:8	According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
	2Ki 17:13	Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
	2Ki 17:14	Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
	2Ch 36:16	But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.
	Neh 9:30	Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
	Eze 20:4	Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
	Eze 20:8	But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
	Zec 7:11	But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
	Zec 7:12	Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 34:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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