Yeremia 34:14

34:14 “Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” ¹  But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

Yeremia 51:46

51:46 Do not lose your courage or become afraid

because of the reports that are heard in the land.

For a report will come in one year.

Another report will follow it in the next.

There will be violence in the land

with ruler fighting against ruler.”

Yeremia 52:31

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ²  day of the twelfth month, ³  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁴  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[34:14]  ¹ sn Compare Deut 15:12-18 for the complete statement of this law. Here only the first part of it is cited.

[52:31]  ² sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ³ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”