Jeremiah 34:8

Zedekiah's Covenant Concerning Slaves

⁷ when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. ⁸ The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; ⁹ that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

From the Lord

Proclaim Liberty

Proclaim Freedom

Proclaim Release

Made A Covenant

Jehovah

Jeremiah

Jerusalem

Zedekiah

Leviticus 25:10

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

2 Kings 11:17

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

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 25:39-46

"'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

2 Kings 23:2-3

The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh.

Nehemiah 5:1-13

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

Exodus 21:2-4

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Exodus 23:10-11

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

Deuteronomy 15:12

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

2 Chronicles 15:12-15

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

2 Chronicles 23:16

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

2 Chronicles 29:10

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

2 Chronicles 34:30-33

The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh.

Nehemiah 9:38-27

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it."

Jeremiah 34:14-15

At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.