A covenant. The scene of this "covenant" was the temple (Jeremiah 34:15, Jeremiah 34:18). Solemn agreements of this kind were not uncommon. To proclaim liberty unto them. The phrase, a very peculiar one, is taken from the law of jubilee (Le Jeremiah 25:10), though the prescription on which the covenant was based refers exclusively to the seventh year of the slave's servitude.
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Jeremiah 34:8
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