RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

when Nevuchadnetzar melech of Bavel, and all his army,
and all the malchutim of the earth from his dominion, and
all the people, fought against Yahrushalayim, and against
all its cities, saying,
2 This says vuvh, the Elohim of Yisrael; Go and speak to
Tzidkiyahu melech of Yahudah, and tell him, This says
vuvh; See, I will give this city into the hand of the melech
of Bavel, and he shall burn it with fire:
3 And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall
surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your
eyes shall see the eyes of the melech of Bavel, and he
shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to
Bavel.
4 Yet hear the word of vuvh, O Tzidkiyahu melech of
Yahudah; This says vuvh concerning you, You shall not
die by the sword:
5 But you shall die in shalom: and with the burnings of
spices for your ahvot, the former melechim who were
before you, so shall they burn spices for you; and they
will lament for you, saying, Ah master! For I have spoken
the word, says vuvh.
6 Then Yirmeyahu the navi spoke all these words to
Tzidkiyahu melech of Yahudah in Yahrushalayim,
7 When the melech of Bavel's army fought against
Yahrushalayim, and against all the cities of Yahudah that
were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for only
these walled cities remained of the cities of Yahudah.
8 This is the word that came to Yirmeyahu from vuvh,
after the melech Tzidkiyahu had made a brit with all the
people who were at Yahrushalayim, to proclaim the year
of shmeta-release 2260 to them;
9 That everyone should let his male eved, and his female
eved, being an Ivri man, or woman, go free; that none
should keep them, meaning a Yahudi his brother.
10 Now when all the leaders, and all the people, who had
entered into the brit, heard that everyone should let his
male eved, and everyone his female eved, go free, that
none should be served by them anymore, then they
obeyed, and let them go.
11 But afterwards they changed their minds, and caused
the male avadim and the female avadim, whom they had
let go free, to shuv, and brought them into subjection
again as male avadim and female avadim.
12 Therefore the Word of vuvh 2261 came to Yirmeyahu
from vuvh, saying,
13 This says vuvh, the Elohim of Yisrael; I made a brit
with your ahvot in the day that I brought them forth out of
the land of Mitzrayim, out of the bayit of slavery, saying,
14 At the end of seven years everyone should let his Ivri
brother go free, which has been sold to you; and when he
has served you six years, you shall let him go free from
you: but your ahvot listened not to Me, neither inclined
their ear.
15 And you recently turned, and had done right in My
sight, in proclaiming shmeta-release everyone to his
neighbor; and you had made a brit before Me in the Bayit
which is called by My Name:
16 But you turned back and defiled My Name, and caused
every man his male eved, and every man his female eved,
whom you had set free for their pleasure, to shuv, and
have brought them into subjection again, to be your male
and female avadim.
17 Therefore this says vuvh; You have not listened to Me,
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in proclaiming shmeta-release, everyone to his brother,
and every man to his neighbor: see, I proclaim a shmeta
for you, says vuvh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to
the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the
malchutim of the earth.
18 And I will give the men that have transgressed My brit,
who have not performed the words of the brit which they
made before Me, when they cut the calf in two, and
passed between the parts of it,
19 The leaders of Yahudah, and the leaders of
Yahrushalayim, the officers, and the Kohanim, and all the
people of the land, who passed between the parts of the
calf;
20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of them that seek their chayim: and
their dead bodies shall be for food for the fowls of the
shamayim, and for the beasts of the earth.
21 And Tzidkiyahu melech of Yahudah and his leaders
will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the
hand of those that seek their chayim, and into the hand of
the melech of Bavel's army, which has withdrawn from
you.
22 See, I will command, says vuvh, and cause them to
shuv to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take
it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of
Yahudah a ruin without an inhabitant.
The word that came to Yirmeyahu from vuvh in the
days of Yahuyakim the son of Yoshiyahu melech of
Yahudah, saying,
2 Go to the bayit of the Rechavites, and speak to them,
and bring them into the Bayit of vuvh, into one of the
rooms, and give them wine to drink.
3 Then I took Yazanyah the son of Yirmeyahu, the son of
Havatzinyah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and all the
bayit of the Rechavites;
4 And I brought them into the Bayit of vuvh, into the
room of the sons of Chanan, the son of Yigdalyah, a man
of Elohim, who was by the room of the leaders, which
was above the room of Maaseyah the son of Shallum, the
keeper of the door:
5 And I set before the sons of the bayit of the Rechavites
pots full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, Drink the
wine.
6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Yonadav the
son of Rechav our abba commanded us, saying, You
shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons
le-olam-va-ed:
7 Neither shall you build a bayit, nor sow zera, nor plant a
vineyard, nor have any possessions: but all your days you
shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the
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8 So have we obeyed the voice of Yonadav the son of
Rechav our abba in all that he has commanded us, to
drink no wine at all in our days, we, our wives, our sons,
and our daughters;
9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
vineyards, or fields, or zera:
10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Yonadav our abba has commanded
us.
11 But it came to pass, when Nevuchadnetzar melech of
Bavel came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let