{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_vul_jer034_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_vul_jer034_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_vul_jer034_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/vul/jer034.htm","summary":"This is a passage from the Latin Vulgate Bible, comprising Jeremiah 34:1\u201322, belonging to the tradition of Hebrew prophetic literature in Jerome's 4th-century Latin translation. It contains two distinct oracles delivered to King Zedekiah of Judah during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.\n\nThe first oracle (vv. 1\u20137) declares that Jerusalem will fall to Nebuchadnezzar and that Zedekiah will be captured and taken to Babylon, though God promises he will die peacefully rather than by the sword, with proper mourning rites. The second and longer oracle (vv. 8\u201322) concerns a covenant Zedekiah made to free Hebrew slaves in accordance with the law requiring release after six years of service; the people initially complied but then reversed themselves and re-enslaved the freed men and women.\n\nThe text's most distinctive rhetorical move is a punishing verbal mirror: because the people proclaimed *libertatem* (freedom) to their slaves and then revoked it, God now proclaims *libertatem* \u2014 freedom \u2014 to the sword, plague, and famine against them. The passage grounds national catastrophe directly in breach of covenant obligations to fellow Israelites, invoking the original Sinai covenant and the Exodus as the standard against which this betrayal is measured. It would appeal to readers interested in the Hebrew prophetic tradition's intersection of social ethics, covenant theology, and political prophecy.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Vulgate: Jeremiah: Jeremiah Chapter 34","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":609}