SEV Biblia, Chapter 34:11
Pero después se arrepintieron, e hicieron tornar los siervos y las siervas que habían dejado libres, y los sujetaron por siervos y por siervas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 34:11
Verse 11. But afterward they turned] They had agreed to manumit them at the end of the seventh year; but when the seventh year was ended, they recalled their engagement, and detained their servants. This, I believe, is what is here meant.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Zedekiah's death at Babylon foretold. (Jer. 34:1-7) The Jews reprove for compelling their poor brethren to return to unlawful bondage. (Jer 34:8-22) Jer. 34:1-7 Zedekiah is told that the city shall be taken, and that he shall die a captive, but he shall die a natural death. It is better to live and die penitent in a prison, than to live and die impenitent in palace.
Jer. 34:8-22 A Jew should not be held in servitude above seven years This law they and their fathers had broken. And when there was some hope that the siege was raised, they forced the servants they ha released into their services again. Those who think to cheat God be dissembled repentance and partial reformation, put the greatest chea upon their own souls. This shows that liberty to sin, is really onl liberty to have the sorest judgments. It is just with God to disappoin expectations of mercy, when we disappoint the expectations of duty. An when reformation springs only from terror, it is seldom lasting. Solem vows thus entered into, profane the ordinances of God; and the mos forward to bind themselves by appeals to God, are commonly most read to break them. Let us look to our hearts, that our repentance may be real, and take care that the law of God regulates our conduct __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וישׁובו 7725 אחרי 310 כן 3651 וישׁבו 7725 את 853 העבדים 5650 ואת 853 השׁפחות 8198 אשׁר 834 שׁלחו 7971 חפשׁים 2670 ויכבישׁום 3533 לעבדים 5650 ולשׁפחות׃ 8198
