The armies of Babylon are attacking the land when God, through Jeremiah, tells King Zedekiah that he will not be killed by the Babylonian army.
Later in the chapter, King Zedekiah tells the people of Jerusalem to release their Hebrew slaves. They do this, but change their minds and then re-enslave them. This angers God who reminds them that under the Mosiac law, the maximum time for slavery for a Hebrew was six years. God also says that this practice has not been followed.
A quick thought on slavery - if the US South had been following this Old Testament model, then there would not have been lifelong slavery, at least for Black people who converted to Christianity.
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