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  1. Royal burial<\/em>. \u201cAs incense was burned for your ancestors, the earlier kings who preceded you, so they will burn incense for you, and they will lament for you \u2018Ah, lord!\u2019\u201d The prophecy promises an aromatic funeral, and a dignified eulogy, befitting a king (verse 5). Was this prophecy fulfilled? In five chapters (Jer. 39), we\u2019ll know at least part of what happens.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. On-scene reporting<\/em>. Verse 7 gives an up-to-the-minute account of the situation in the kingdom of Judah: \u201cwhen the army of the king of Babylon was waging war against Jerusalem and against the remaining towns of Judah\u2014against Lachish and Azekah, for they were the only fortified towns of Judah that were left.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Why talk about the freeing of slaves<\/em>? Why did King Zedekiah choose to address this problems specifically? Perhaps because it was a severe social issue, and he wanted to advance equity and justice. Or perhaps it is because he felt a connection between enslavement within a society and enslavement to a foreign power, and in correcting the internal situation he hoped to influence the national one. And perhaps there are other reasons connected to wartime, and the difficulty in holding slaves during a siege.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The covenant of the pieces<\/em>. Just like the covenant with Abraham 419 chapters ago (Gen. 15), which was established through a ceremony where animals were cut in two, the covenant in the days of Zedekiah was made in a similar ceremony, alluded to in the punishment for its desecration: \u201cI will make the men who violated My covenant, who did not fulfill the terms of the covenant which they made before Me, [like] the calf which they cut in two so as to pass between the halves\u201d (verse 18).<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Serial covenant-breakers<\/em>. That\u2019s the conclusion from the story of the release of the slaves, and their re-enslavement. If you remember, that was the conclusion in chapter 11 as well, where the issue was a general covenant, possibly the covenant from the days of Josiah.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. What\u2019s the connection<\/em>? In 578 BCE, the Babylonian siege on Jerusalem was temporarily lifted. Had the slaves been released during the siege, and with its easing, been re-enslaved? 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