Jeremiah 34:11
New International Version
But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.

New Living Translation
but later they changed their minds. They took back the men and women they had freed, forcing them to be slaves again.

English Standard Version
But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.

Berean Standard Bible
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

King James Bible
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

New King James Version
But afterward they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male and female slaves.

New American Standard Bible
But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male servants and as female servants.

NASB 1995
But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.

NASB 1977
But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.

Legacy Standard Bible
But afterwards they turned around and returned to themselves the male slaves and the female slaves, whom they had let go as free, and subdued them to be male slaves and female slaves.

Amplified Bible
But afterward they backed out [of the covenant] and made the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free return [to them], and brought the male servants and the female servants again into servitude.

Christian Standard Bible
Afterward, however, they changed their minds and took back their male and female slaves they had let go free and forced them to become slaves again.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Afterward, however, they changed their minds and took back their male and female slaves they had freed and forced them to become slaves again.

American Standard Version
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they turned after this and they subjected the freed ones and they made them Servants

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and gave them over to be men-servants and maid-servants.

Contemporary English Version
But those slave owners changed their minds and forced their former slaves back into slavery.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into subjection as menservants and maidservants.

English Revised Version
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But afterwards, they changed their minds and took back the men and women they had freed and made them their slaves again.

Good News Translation
but later they changed their minds, took them back, and forced them to become slaves again.

International Standard Version
But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves that they had set free, and they forced them to become male and female slaves.

JPS Tanakh 1917
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids;

Literal Standard Version
and they turn afterward, and cause the menservants and the maidservants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for menservants and for maidservants.

Majority Standard Bible
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

New American Bible
afterward they took back their male and female servants whom they had set free and again forced them into servitude.

NET Bible
But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.

New Revised Standard Version
But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them again into subjection as slaves.

New Heart English Bible
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Webster's Bible Translation
But afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had liberated, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

World English Bible
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Young's Literal Translation
and they turn afterwards, and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants.

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Context
Freedom for Hebrew Slaves
10So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them, 11but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again. 12Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,…

Cross References
Jeremiah 34:10
So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

Jeremiah 34:12
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Jeremiah 34:16
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.


Treasury of Scripture

But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Jeremiah 34:21
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

Jeremiah 37:5
Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

Exodus 8:8,15
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD…

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Jeremiah 34
1. Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city.
8. The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants,
11. contrary to the covenant of God, re-assume them.
12. Jeremiah gives them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but later
אַחֲרֵי־ (’a·ḥă·rê-)
Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

they changed their minds
וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙ (way·yā·šū·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

and took back
וַיָּשִׁ֗בוּ (way·yā·ši·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

the menservants
הָֽעֲבָדִים֙ (hā·‘ă·ḇā·ḏîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

maidservants
הַשְּׁפָח֔וֹת (haš·šə·p̄ā·ḥō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8198: Maid, maidservant

they had freed,
שִׁלְּח֖וּ (šil·lə·ḥū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

and they forced them
וַֽיִּכְבְּשׁ֔וּם (way·yiḵ·bə·šūm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3533: To subdue, bring into bondage

to become slaves
לַעֲבָדִ֖ים (la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

again.
וְלִשְׁפָחֽוֹת׃ (wə·liš·p̄ā·ḥō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8198: Maid, maidservant


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