Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 34:13

13 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,

The Law of God is called often a Covenant, because it containeth the will of God which he would have them do to which (whether they express their consent or no) they are bound to consent, and agree. But to the Iewes all Gods Lawes given on Mount Sinai were a formal explicit Covenant, God explicitly telling them what he would have them to do, and they as explicitly promising they would do it, Exod. 24.3.

It was a double aggravation of their sin, that this Covenant was made betwixt God, and them in consideration of his kindness in bringing them out of Egypt, and from the consideration that they were bondmen in Egypt, and so ought to have taught them the hearts of Bondmen, so as they should have compassionated them whom they kept in the like distress in which they had been themselves, and from which God had delivered them. We stand concerned to remember the Vowes we make to God in our distress, for God will not forget them, Gen. 35.1. as also to compassionate them, who fall into the same distresses that we have been in, and out of which God hath saved us, God expecteth that we should shew the same compassion to others, Math. 18.33.