EXPOSITION
This chapter must be taken in connection with Jeremiah 35:1-19. The whole section consists of three passages, introduced with a superscription in the same form, but otherwise unrelated. It serves to finish off the earlier prophetic portion of the book, Jeremiah 36:1-32. opening a series of narratives.
The first passage (Jeremiah 34:1-7) is virtually a postscript to Jeremiah 32:1-44; Jeremiah 33:1-26.; it apparently contains the prophecy referred to in Jeremiah 32:3-5 as the cause of Jeremiah's imprisonment. The same prophecy recurs in a shorter form in Jeremiah 37:17, and, by comparing the context of this passage with Jeremiah 32:1, etc; we are enabled to infer that the original prophecy was uttered at the renewal of the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, who had withdrawn for a time on the news of the approach of Pharaoh's army.