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‏ Jeremiah 34:14

At the Jer 34:8-9; Exod 21:1-4, Exod 23:10-11; Deut 15:12; 1Kgs 9:22; 2Chr 28:10; Isa 58:6; Amos 2:6, Amos 8:6

been sold or, sold himself, 1Kgs 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 7:25-26, Jer 11:8-10, Jer 32:30; 1Sam 8:7-8; 2Kgs 17:13-14; 2Chr 36:16; Neh 9:30; Ezek 20:4, Ezek 20:8; Zech 7:11-12