Jeremiah 34:9-11

Contemporary English Version

The People Break a Promise

^8-10 King Zedekiah,^[a] his officials, and everyone else in Jerusalem made an agreement to free all Hebrew^[b] men and women who were slaves. No Jew would keep another as a slave. And so, all the Jewish slaves were given their freedom.

¹¹ But those slave owners changed their minds and forced their former slaves back into slavery.