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Jeremiah
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying: See also: Jeremiah 1:15Daniel 2:37-38Daniel 4:1“The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, the LORD says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire. See also: Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 34:22Jeremiah 22:1-2You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon.”’ See also: Jeremiah 32:4Jeremiah 21:72 Kings 25:4-7“Yet hear the LORD’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah. The LORD says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword. You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says the LORD.” See also: Jeremiah 22:182 Chronicles 16:142 Chronicles 21:19-20Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, See also: 1 Samuel 3:181 Samuel 15:16-24Matthew 14:4when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. See also: Joshua 10:3Joshua 15:35Jeremiah 4:5The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them, See also: Leviticus 25:102 Kings 11:17Jeremiah 34:17that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother. See also: Philippians 3:52 Corinthians 11:22Jeremiah 30:8All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go, See also: Jeremiah 26:10Jeremiah 26:16Jeremiah 38:4but afterwards 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. See also: 2 Peter 2:20-22Ecclesiastes 8:11Proverbs 26:11Therefore the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: See also: Judges 6:8Joshua 24:17Jeremiah 31:32At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear. See also: Deuteronomy 15:122 Kings 17:13-141 Samuel 8:7-8You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name; See also: Jeremiah 34:82 Kings 23:3Nehemiah 10:29but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’” See also: Leviticus 19:12Jeremiah 34:11Ezekiel 3:20Therefore the LORD says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says the LORD, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. See also: Matthew 7:2Galatians 6:7Deuteronomy 28:25I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts: See also: Genesis 15:10Hosea 6:7Psalms 50:1the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf. See also: Zephaniah 3:3-4Jeremiah 34:10Jeremiah 29:2I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. See also: Jeremiah 7:33Jeremiah 19:7Jeremiah 16:4“I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you. See also: Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 52:24-27Jeremiah 52:10Behold, I will command,” says the LORD, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.” See also: Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 39:1-2Jeremiah 39:8
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 34:1
Ver. 1. Came, in the 11th year of Sedecias, before the Chaldees returned to their siege. C. xxxvii.
4.
↑ 1Jeremiah 34:3
Ver. 3. Go to, yet shall not see Babylon, (Ezec. xii. 13.) his eyes being put out.
C. xxxii. 4. C.
See 4 K. xxv. 7. W. --- Paine objects this as a false prophecy, though it was verified so terribly.
Daniel, &c. would not neglect to bury the king. Watson.
↑ 3Jeremiah 34:5
Ver. 5. Peace. That is, by a natural death. Ch. --- Burn thee, like Asa; (2 Par. xvi.
14. C.) or aromatical spices were only burnt over their dead bodies, which were also embalmed. Sanct.
Vat. &c. --- Tostat says that Sedecias was intoxicated, for sport, (Hab. ii. 15.) and died of grief in prison. C. lii. 11. C. --- The king of Babylon would probably not refuse him a decent burial.
Watson, Let. vi.
↑ 5Jeremiah 34:7
Ver. 7. Lachis, near Hebron. Detachments were sent to different places.
↑ 7Jeremiah 34:9
Ver. 9. Brethren. The sabbatical year happened in the 9th of Sedecias, when the Chaldees approaching, caused him to shew some signs of religion. But when they departed to meet the Egyptians, the people repented of what they had done well. C. --- Such a relapse offends God more than the former sins, as our Saviour shews by a parable. Mat. xviii. W.
↑ 9Jeremiah 34:14
Ver. 14. End, or commencement. Glass. Gram. iii. 6. Ex. xxi. 2. Deut. xv. 12. Lu.
ii. 21. C.
↑ 14Jeremiah 34:16
Ver. 16. And set. Heb. "to their own soul," to do as they pleased. H.
↑ 16Jeremiah 34:17
Ver. 17. For you. I acknowledge you no longer as my servant. I will let loose the sword, &c.
against you.
↑ 17Jeremiah 34:18
Ver. 18. Parts. This was done to signify that if they transgressed, they consented to be slain.
Gen. xv. 9, 17. It seems Sedecias and his subjects had solemnly ratified the covenant made at Sinai, being impressed with fear of the enemy.
↑ 18Jeremiah 34:19
Ver. 19. Eunuchs, chief officers. One was at the head of the army. 4 K. xxv. 19.
↑ 19Jeremiah 34:21
Ver. 21. From you, to attack Egypt. Afterwards the various detachments came and took Jerusalem. C.
↑ 21Jeremiah 34:22
Ver. 22. Command. He did not approve of their cruelty, but used them as scourges. W.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses