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|Jeremías 34:1|
While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
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|Jeremías 34:2|
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
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|Jeremías 34:3|
You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and handed over to him. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.
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|Jeremías 34:4|
“‘Yet hear the promise of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
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|Jeremías 34:5|
you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honour of your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so they will make a fire in your honour and lament, “Alas, O master!” I myself make this promise, declares the LORD.’”
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|Jeremías 34:6|
Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
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|Jeremías 34:7|
while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out — Lachish and Azekah. These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.
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|Jeremías 34:8|
The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves.
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|Jeremías 34:9|
Everyone was to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no-one was to hold a fellow Jew in bondage.
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|Jeremías 34:10|
So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
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