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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 23 — Jeremiah 34. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 23 — Jeremiah 34. Show all posts

05 May, 2017

Search The Scriptures —Study 23 — Jeremiah 34

Study 23 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 34

Two incidents that occurred during the siege of Jerusalem at the end of Zedekiah’s reign.
1.     Nebuchadrezzar doubtless thought that he, with his numerous and powerful force (verse 1), was master of the situation.  But, who is revealed here as the controlling power, deciding the fate of cities and kings? Cf. Is. 40:15, 17, 21-24; Lk. 3:1, 2.
2.     Why was the failure to go through with the freeing of the slaves so severely condemned? Cf. @c. 5:4, 5; Mt. 7:21; 21:28-31a; Lk. 9:62. With verse 17, cf. 22:16. Do I owe some promised obedience which has not yet been performed.
Notes
1.     Verses 2-5. Cf. 32:3-5; 52:11.
2.     Verse 14. Cf. Dt. 15:12-15.
3.     Verse 17. ‘Liberty to the sword’: i.e., freedom to be destroyed by conquest.
4.     Verses 18, 19. The ceremony of the covenant of repentance (verse 15) included the participants’ passing between the parts of a calf which had been cut in two (cf. Gn. 15:7-18). By such ritual, they asked to be put to death in a similar violent manner, if they failed to keep their promise. See verse 20.