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to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Verse 21. Sabbaths, every seventh year. Leviticus 25:2 and 26:43. Jeremiah 25:11 and 29:10.—Expired: not that the earth was quite neglected, all that time, from the third year of Joakim, A.Menochius. 3398 till 3468. Calmet.—But it was almost: particularly after the murder of Godolias, ( Menochius.) the public worship was at a stand, and so forth Bible.—During this fifth age, the true religion subsisted invariable, not only in the kingdom of Juda, but also in that of Israel. See Worthington. Bible.
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