Jeremiah 34:6-10

Contemporary English Version

⁶ I went to Zedekiah and told him what the Lord had said. ⁷ Meanwhile, the king of Babylonia was trying to break through the walls of Lachish, Azekah, and Jerusalem, the only three towns of Judah that had not been captured.

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.