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**The Twenty-Seventh Prophecy of Jeremiah** (see book comments for Jeremiah).
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**The word.** This chapter is Ch. [Jeremiah 32:1-5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/1-5) , told over again more fully.
**Nebuchadnezzar.** Not that he was necessarily present.
**fought** = were fighting, or about to fight.

**the LORD, the God of Israel.** See note on [Jeremiah 11:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/3) .

**thine eyes shall behold, &c.** See note on [Jeremiah 32:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/4) .

**with.** Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "like".
**burn odours.** Compare [2 Chronicles 16:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/14) , and observe the word is *saraph* , not *katar* ( App-43 for both)

**Lachish.** Now *Tell el Hesy,* south of Eglon, ten and a half miles from Eleutheropolis.
**Azekah.** Now *Tell Zakariya,* in the valley of Elah. JEREMIAH: Page: 1066

**The Twenty-Eighth Prophecy of Jeremiah** (see book comments for Jeremiah). ****
**a covenant.** Note the illustration of the two covenants, (verses: [Jeremiah 34:8-10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/8-10) ) and (verses: [Jeremiah 34:12-15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/12-15) ), and compare with the other illustration in ([Jeremiah 35:1-11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/35/1-11) ).
**to proclaim liberty, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 21:2](../../../kjv/exodus/21/2) .[Leviticus 25:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/10) , [Leviticus 25:39-46](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/39-46) . Outside the Pent, the word occurs only in [Isaiah 61:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/1) , and [Ezekiel 46:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/46/17) .

**every man.** Hebrew. *'ish* . App-14 .
**go free.** See note on [Jeremiah 34:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/8) , and compare verses: [Jeremiah 34:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/21) , [Jeremiah 34:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/22) , which show that this covenant was made during a temporary withdrawal of the besiegers, on account of the Egyptians ([Jeremiah 37:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/5) ).
**serve himself of them** = use them as bondservants.

**The Twenty-Ninth Prophecy of Jeremiah** (see book comments for Jeremiah).
**every one** = ' *ish* , as in [Jeremiah 34:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/9) .

**in the day** = when. See App-18 .
**bondmen** = slaves.

**which is called by My name** = upon which My name is called.

**polluted My name.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 19:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/12) , the same word). App-92 .
**he** = every man.
**at their pleasure** = for their own soul. Hebrew. *nephesh* ( App-13 ): "soul" being put for the affections of the person.

**liberty . . . liberty.** Figure of speech *Antanaclasis* , by which the same word is used in two different senses in the same sentence.
**to.** Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and to", completing the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* .
**make you to be removed.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/25) , [Deuteronomy 28:64](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/64) ). App-92 . Compare [Jeremiah 24:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/24/9) .

**men.** Hebrew, plural of *'enosh.* App-14 .
**transgressed.** Hebrew. *'abar.* App-44 .
**cut the calf in twain.** Compare [Genesis 15:9](../../../kjv/genesis/15/9) , [Genesis 15:10](../../../kjv/genesis/15/10) .
**passed between, &c.** Ref to Pentateuch ([Genesis 15:10-17](../../../kjv/genesis/15/10-17) ).

**life** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**which are gone up from you.** See note on [Jeremiah 34:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/9) .

**a desolation, &c.:** or, too desolate to have an inhabitant; or, desolate through having no inhabitant.

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