Jeremiah 34:8

Zedekiah's Covenant Concerning Slaves

⁷ when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained. ⁸ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them: ⁹ that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.

From the Lord

Proclaim Liberty

Proclaim Freedom

Proclaim Release

Made A Covenant

Jehovah

Jeremiah

Jerusalem

Zedekiah

Leviticus 25:10

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.

2 Kings 11:17

And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, that they should be the LORD's people, and also between the king and the people.

Jeremiah 34:17

"Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 25:39-46

"If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

2 Kings 23:2-3

And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

Nehemiah 5:1-13

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Exodus 21:2-4

When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

Exodus 23:10-11

"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

Deuteronomy 15:12

"If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

2 Chronicles 15:12-15

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,

2 Chronicles 23:16

And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD's people.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

2 Chronicles 34:30-33

And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

Nehemiah 9:38-27

"Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Jeremiah 34:14-15

'At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.