Jeremiah 34 · Verse 19

Jeremiah 34:19

The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Jeremiah 34:19, King James Version

Jeremiah 34:19 in other translations

BSBThe 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,
WEBthe princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf.
ASVthe princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;
YLTheads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land those passing through between the pieces of the calf--
DARBY— the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;
BBEThe rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,
WebsterThe princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;

What does Jeremiah 34:19 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 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 had released into their services again. Those who think to cheat God by dissembled repentance and partial reformation, put the greatest cheat upon their own souls. This shows that liberty to sin, is really only liberty to have the…

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Jeremiah 34:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שָׂרֵ֨יsa.Rei[the] officials ofH8269
יְהוּדָ֜הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
וְשָׂרֵ֣יve.sa.Reiand [the] officials ofH8269
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389
הַסָּֽרִסִים֙ha.sa.ri.Simthe court-officialsH5631
וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםve.ha.Ko.ha.Nimand the priestsH3548
וְכֹ֖לve.Kholand allH3605
עַ֣ם'am[the] people ofH5971
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
הָעֹ֣בְרִ֔יםha.'oe.Rimwho passedH5674
בֵּ֖יןbeinbetweenH996
בִּתְרֵ֥יbit.Rei[the] pieces ofH1335
הָעֵֽגֶל\׃ha.'E.gelthe calfH5695

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Cross references for Jeremiah 34:19

  • Jeremiah 34:10

    Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

  • Zephaniah 3:3-4

    Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Ezekiel 22:27-31

    Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. …

  • Jeremiah 29:2

    (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

  • Micah 7:1-5

    Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. …

  • Daniel 9:12

    And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

  • Jeremiah 38:7

    Now when Ebed–melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

  • 2 Kings 24:15

    And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Daniel 9:6

    Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • 2 Kings 24:12

    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

  • Daniel 9:8

    O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

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princes.
10; Eze 22:27-31; Da 9:6,8,12; Mic 7:1-5; Zep 3:3,4
the eunuchs.
29:2; 38:7; 2Ki 24:12,15; *marg:

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Context

  • Jeremiah 34:18

    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,

  • Jeremiah 34:19

    The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

  • Jeremiah 34:20

    I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

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Jeremiah 34:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
A los príncipes de Judá y á los príncipes de Jerusalem, á los eunucos y á los sacerdotes, y á todo el pueblo de la tierra, que pasaron entre las partes del becerro,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
les princes de Juda, et les princes de Jérusalem, les eunuques, et les sacrificateurs, et tout le peuple du pays, qui ont passé entre les pièces du veau;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die Fürsten von Juda und die Fürsten von Jerusalem, die Kämmerer und die Priester und alles Volk des Landes, welche zwischen den Stücken des Kalbes hindurchgegangen sind,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
principes Juda et principes Jerusalem, eunuchi et sacerdotes, et omnis populus terræ, qui transierunt inter divisiones vituli: