Jeremiah 34:18
16 But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
17 Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
19 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,
20 I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
- KJV
- And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
- WEB
- I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:
- ASV
- And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;
- DARBY
- And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, the calf which they cut in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
- BLB
- And I will give the men having transgressed My covenant, who have not made stand the words of the covenant that they cut before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it—
- ÅB
- Og jeg gir de menn som overtrådte min pakt, som ikke holdt ordene i den pakt som de opprettet for mitt åsyn, da de skar pakts-kalven i to stykker og så gikk mellom stykkene av den,
- OTB
- De som har brutt min pakt og ikke har oppfylt vilkårene i pakten de inngikk for mitt åsyn, vil jeg behandle som kalven de skar i to og deretter gikk mellom delene av.
- B1930
- Og jeg gir de menn som overtrådte min pakt, som ikke holdt ordene i den pakt som de oprettet for mitt åsyn, da de skar pakts-kalven i to stykker og så gikk mellem stykkene av den,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 15:10
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
Read in contextHosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 17:2
If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
Read in contextJoshua 23:16
If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
Read in contextHosea 8:1
Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
Read in contextGenesis 15:17–18
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
Read in contextPsalms 50:1
The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
Read in contextJoshua 7:11
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
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