And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people; also between the king and the people.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and every man of Judah, and all who dwelt in Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His ordinances with all [his] heart and with all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant; [even] [all] the things written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

And they entered into a covenant, that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the people and the king, that the people should be the Lord's.

Therefore it is now in my heart to make a covenant, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that He may turn away His fierce wrath from us.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, [he] and all Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people great and small; and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant that were found in the house of the Lord.

And he caused all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand; and the inhabitants of Jerusalem made a covenant in the house of the Lord God of their fathers.

And in regard to all these circumstances we make a covenant, and write [it], and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, set their seal to [it].

And over them that sealed were Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel

Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

Hodijah, the sons of Beninu.

the sons of Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

Meshezebel, Zadok, Jaddua,

Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

Malluch, Harim, [and] Baanah.

When six years are accomplished, you shall set free your brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to you; for he shall serve you six years, and [then] you shall let him go free. But they hearkened not to Me, and inclined not their ear.

Therefore thus said the Lord: You have not hearkened to Me, to proclaim a release everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion [among] all the kingdoms of the earth.

If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.

Moreover, if his master gives him a wife, and she has [born] him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.

Six years you shall sow your land, and gather in the fruits of it.

But in the seventh year you shall let it rest, and leave it, and the poor of your nation shall feed; and the wild beasts of the field shall eat that which remains; thus shall you do to your vineyard and to your olive grove.

And you shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it. It shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and you shall go each to his family.

And if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.

and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his family.

You shall not oppress him with labor, and shall fear the Lord your God.

And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these you shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.

And if your brother [or sister], a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, are sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out free from you.

And the cry of the people and their wives [was] great against their brothers the Jews.

And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take grain, and eat.

And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brothers, our children [are] as their children. Yet behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved; and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.

And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,

And I said, The thing which you do is not good; you will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.

Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them grain and wine and oil of the money.

And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord; and the people did this thing.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;