Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Jeremiah 34:14

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At the: Jer 34:8, Jer 34:9; Exo 21:1-4, Exo 23:10, Exo 23:11; Deu 15:12; Kg1 9:22; Ch2 28:10; Isa 58:6; Amo 2:6, Amo 8:6 been sold: or, sold himself, Kg1 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; Sa1 8:7, Sa1 8:8; Kg2 17:13, Kg2 17:14; Ch2 36:16; Neh 9:30; Eze 20:4, Eze 20:8; Zac 7:11, Zac 7:12 Jeremiah 34:15

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