Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of ... Egypt ... the house of bondmen. The last year of Zedekiah was the sabbatical year. How just the retribution that they who, against God's law and their own covenant, enslaved their brethren should be doomed to bondage themselves; and that the bond-servants should enjoy the sabbatical freedom at the hands of the foe which their own countrymen denied them! (Jeremiah 52:16.)