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The People Break a Promise

8-10 King Zedekiah,[a] his officials, and everyone else in Jerusalem made an agreement to free all Hebrew[b] men and women who were slaves. No Jew would keep another as a slave. And so, all the Jewish slaves were given their freedom.

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Footnotes

  1. 34.8-10 Zedekiah: See the note at 1.3.
  2. 34.8-10 Hebrew: An earlier term for Israelite and Jewish.

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