Jer 34:14

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At the.

Jer 34:8; Jer 34:9; Exod 21:1-4; Exod 23:10; Exod 23:11; Deut 15:12; 1Kgs 9:22; 2Chr 28:10; Isa 58:6

Amos 2:6; Amos 8:6

been sold. or, sold himself.

1Kgs 21:25; Isa 50:1; Rom 7:14-17; Rom 7:24

but.

It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles (Jer 36:21) assigns this as a reason for the captivity, "that the land might enjoy her sabbaths."

Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years.

Jer 7:25; Jer 7:26; Jer 11:8-10; Jer 32:30; 1Sam 8:7; 1Sam 8:8; 2Kgs 17:13; 2Kgs 17:14; 2Chr 36:16

Neh 9:30; Ezek 20:4; Ezek 20:8; Zech 7:11; Zech 7:12