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Jeremiah 34:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 34:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

EXPOSITION

This chapter must be taken in connection with . The whole section consists of three passages, introduced with a superscription in the same form, but otherwise unrelated. It serves to finish off the earlier prophetic portion of the book, . opening a series of narratives.

The first passage () is virtually a postscript to ; .; it apparently contains the prophecy referred to in as the cause of Jeremiah's imprisonment. The same prophecy recurs in a shorter form in , and, by comparing the context of this passage with , etc; we are enabled to infer that the original prophecy was uttered at the renewal of the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, who had withdrawn for a time on the news of the approach of Pharaoh's army.

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