The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 34:5

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

With the burnings of thy fathers. It was customary to burn spices at royal funerals (2 Chronicles 16:14; 2 Chronicles 21:19). Saying, Ah lord! (see on Jeremiah 22:18).

The second of the group of prophecies in Jeremiah 34:1-22; Jeremiah 35:1-19. is composed of Jeremiah 35:8 -22. It contains a denunciation of the Jews who, at the beginning of the siege, had emancipated their Hebrew slaves (according to Exodus 21:1-4; Deuteronomy 15:12), but after the withdrawal of the Chaldeans had resumed possession of them. Verse 21 is couched in a form which indicates the precise date of the prophecy, viz. before the Chaldeans returned to renew the siege of Jerusalem.

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