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Jeremiah 34:19

in Jeremiah 34

The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;

KJV

The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

This verse in Jeremiah 34

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This prophecy concerning Zedekiah was delivered to Jeremiah, and by him to the parties concerned, before he was shut up in the prison, for we find this prediction here made the ground of his commitment, as appears by the recital of some passages out of it, ch. xxxii.

This site's exposition

Therefore this is what the LORD

on Jeremiah 34:17-20

The LORD says, “So now I proclaim freedom for you,” and names it “freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine.” They had sealed the covenant by passing “between the pieces of the calf,” the rite of Genesis 15.

This site's exposition

the court officials, the priests

Verse 19 names who swore the oath, from the officials of Judah and Jerusalem to the priests and the common people. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the sentence begun in verse 18 is completed in verse 20. Every rank that walked between the pieces falls under it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) with this dreadful imprecation, "Let us be in like manner cut asunder if we do not perform what we now promise." This calf was probably offered up in sacrifice to God, who was thereby made a party to the covenant.

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The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • שָׂרֵ֨י[the] officials of

    sareiH8269 →421 times

  • יְהוּדָ֜הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וְשָׂרֵ֣יand [the] officials of

    vesareiH8269 →421 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • הַסָּֽרִסִים֙the court-officials

    hasarisimH5631 →42 times

  • וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםand the priests

    vehakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • וְכֹ֖לand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • עַ֣ם[the] people of

    ʾamH5971 →1873 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • הָעֹ֣בְרִ֔יםwho passed

    haoerimH5674 →556 times

  • בֵּ֖יןbetween

    beinH996 →407 times

  • בִּתְרֵ֥י[the] pieces of

    bitreiH1335 →

  • הָעֵֽגֶל׃the calf

    haegelH5695 →35 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Daniel 9:12

    You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 5:9

      Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

    • Lamentations 1:12

      Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 38:7

    Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

    it leads to

    • Amos 5:10

      There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

    • Jeremiah 29:2

      (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)

    • Jeremiah 37:13

      But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

    • Deuteronomy 21:19

      his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

    • Jeremiah 13:23

      Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 29:2

    (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 22:24–28

      “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.