Jeremiah 6:10
spoke <01696> [To whom.]
warned <05749> [give.]
ears <0241> [their ear.]
what .... says <01697> [the word.]
like it <02654> [delight.]
Jeremiah 11:8
listen <08085> [obeyed.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
brought <0935> [therefore.]
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.
