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19 These are the people who walked between the two pieces of the calf when they made the agreement before me: the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the important officials of the court, the priests, and the people of the land. 20 So I will give them to their enemies and to everyone who wants to kill them. Their bodies will become food for the birds of the air and for the wild animals of the earth. 21 I will give King Zedekiah of Judah and his leaders to their enemies and to everyone who wants to kill them. I will give Zedekiah and his people to the army of the king of Babylon, even though that army has left Jerusalem.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 34:21 left Jerusalem In the summer of 588 B.C., the Egyptian army came to help the people of Jerusalem. So the Babylonian army had to leave Jerusalem for a short time to fight the Egyptians. See Jer. 37:5. See also the footnote to Jer. 34:11.

19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials,(A) the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf, 20 I will deliver(B) into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them.(C) Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.(D)

21 “I will deliver Zedekiah(E) king of Judah and his officials(F) into the hands of their enemies(G) who want to kill them, to the army of the king of Babylon,(H) which has withdrawn(I) from you.

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