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Jeremiah 21–36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This second book of the 3-volume Anchor Yale Bible commentary on Jeremiah offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah’s royal house, sexual immorality among the clergy, and true versus false prophecy. Yet the prophet who thundered Yahweh’s judgment was also the one who gave the...

personally comes because he broke the oath made to Nebuchadrezzar when the latter installed him as a vassal king. Zedekiah was an oath-breaker. 34 8The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah cut a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them, 9to send away free each person his male slave and each person his female slave, Hebrew and Hebrewess, so that no person should make them serve a
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