Jeremiah 21:12
family <01004> [house.]
See <01777> [Execute. Heb. Judge.]
day <01242> [morning.]
Deliver <05337> [deliver.]
wrath <02534> [lest.]
put out <03518> [none.]
Jeremiah 27:18
prophets <05030> [they.]
pray earnestly <06293> [let them.]
Jeremiah 34:14
Every <07093> [At the.]
sold <04376> [been sold. or, sold himself.]
ancestors <01> [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 (ch. 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.
