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Jeremiah 34:1 575 Jeremiah 35:2

Iaakob: for I wil cause their captiuitie to returne, I made a couenant with your fathers, when I
and haue compassion on them. brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of seruants, saying, 14 At the terme of
34 seuen yeres let ye go, euery man his brother an
1 The worde which came vnto Ieremiah from Ebrewe which hath bene solde vnto thee: and
the Lord (when Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel, when he hath serued the sixe yeres, thou shalt let
and all his hoste, and all the kingdomes of the him go free from thee: but your fathers obeyed
earth, that were vnder the power of his hand, and me not, neither inclined their eares. 15 And ye
all people fought against Ierusalem, and against were nowe turned, and had done right in my
all the cites thereof) saying, 2 Thus sayth the sight in proclayming libertie, euery man to his
Lord God of Israel, Goe, and speake to Zedekiah neighbour, and ye had made a couenant before
King of Iudah, and tell him, Thus sayth the Lord, mee in the house, whereupon my Name is called.
Beholde, I will giue this citie into the hand of 16 But ye repented, and polluted my Name: for
the King of Babel, and he shall burne it with ye haue caused euery man his seruant, and euery
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fire, And thou shall not escape out of his hand, man his handmayde, whom ye had set at libertie
but shalt surely be taken, and deliuered into his at their pleasure, to returne, and holde them in
hand, and thine eyes shall beholde the face of subiection to bee vnto you as seruantes and as
the King of Babel, and he shall speake with thee handmaydes. 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ye
mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babel. Yet haue not obeyed mee, in proclayming freedome
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heare the worde of the Lord, O Zedekiah, King of euery man to his brother, and euery man to
Iudah: thus sayth the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not his neighbour: beholde, I proclaime a libertie
dye by the sword, But thou shalt die in peace: for you, saith the Lord, to the sworde, to the
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and according to the burning for thy fathers the pestilence, and to the famine, and I will make
former Kings which were before thee, so shall you a terrour to all the kingdomes of the earth.
they burne odours for thee, and they shall lament 18 And I will giue those men that haue broken my
thee, saying, Oh lorde: for I haue pronounced couenant, and haue not kept the wordes of the
the worde, sayth the Lord. 6 Then Ieremiah the couenant, which they had made before me, when
Prophet spakeall these words vnto Zedekiah King they cut the calfe in twaine, and passed betweene
of Iudah in Ierusalem, (When the King of Babels the partes thereof: 19 The princes of Iudah, and
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hoste fought against Ierusalem, and against all the princes of Ierusalem, the Eunuches, and the
the cities of Iudah, that were left, euen against Priestes, and all the people of the lande, which
Lachish, and against Azekah: for these strong passed betweene the partes of the calfe, 20 I wil
cities remained of the cities of Iudah) This is the euen giue them into the hand of their enemies,
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worde that came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, af- and into the handes of them that seeke their life:
ter that the King Zedekiah had made a couenant and their dead bodies shalbe for meate vnto the
with all the people, which were at Ierusalem, to foules of the heauen, and to the beastes of the
And Zedekiah King of Iudah, and his
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earth.
proclaime libertie vnto them, That euery man princes will I giue into the hand of their enemies,
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should let his seruant go free, and euery man his and into the hande of them that seeke their life,
handmayde, which was an Ebrue or an Ebruesse, and into the hande of the King of Babels hoste,
and that none should serue himselfe of them, to which are gone vp from you. 22 Beholde, I will
wit, of a Iewe his brother. 10 Now when all the
princes, and all the people which had agreed to commande, saith the Lord, and cause them to
returne to this citie, and they shall fight against
the couenant, heard that euery one should let his it, and take it, and burne it with fire: and I
seruant go free, and euery one his handmaide, will make the cities of Iudah desolate without an
and that none should serue them selues of them inhabitant.
any more, they obeyed and let them go. 11 But
afterwarde they repented and caused the seru- 35
ants and the handmayds, whom they had let go 1 The worde which came vnto Ieremiah from
free, to returne, and helde them in subiection the Lord, in the dayes of Iehoiakim the sonne
as seruants and handmayds. 12 Therefore the of Iosiah King of Iudah, saying, 2 Go vnto the
worde of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah from the house of the Rechabites, and speake vnto them,
Lord, saying, 13 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, and bring them into the house of the Lord into