Jeremiah 34:7-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, ^(A)Lachish and ^(B)Azekah, for they alone remained as ^(C)fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

⁸ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had ^(D)made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to ^(E)proclaim ^[a]release to them: ⁹ that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a ^(F)Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that ^(G)no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.