18 And I will give those men that have broken my Covenant, and have not kept the words of the Covenant, which they had made before me, when they [a]cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the Eunuchs, and the Priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf,

20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 34:18 As touching this manner of solemn covenant which the ancients used by passing between the two parts of a beast, to signify that the transgressor of the same covenant should be so divided in pieces, read Gen. 15:10.

18 Those who have violated my covenant(A) and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.(B) 19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials,(C) the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf, 20 I will deliver(D) into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them.(E) Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.(F)

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