Jeremiah 34:13 meaning and explanation

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:

Jeremiah 34:13, Berean Standard Bible

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The LORD speaks through Jeremiah to Zedekiah and the people of Jerusalem, who had just broken a covenant to free their Hebrew slaves. Verse 13 grounds that charge in history: God reminds them that he himself made a covenant with their ancestors at the exodus, when he brought them out of Egypt, called here the house of slavery.

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