Jeremiah 32
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Jeremiah Buys a Field
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, # 2Ki 25:1–2; Jer 39:1–2 which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, # Ne 3:25; Jer 37:21 which was in the house of the king of Judah.
3For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy? You say: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, # Jer 21:4–7; 34:2–3 and he shall take it, 4and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, # Jer 38:18, 23 and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye. 5And he will lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he will be until I visit him, # Jer 27:22 says the Lord. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, # Jer 33:5 you will not succeed.”
6So Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me, saying: 7Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth. # Jer 1:1 For the right of redemption is yours to buy it.” # Lev 25:25
8So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison # Jer 32:2 according to the word of the Lord and said to me, “Please buy my field, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin, for the right of inheritance and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.”
Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. 9I bought the field of Hanamel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels # 32:9 About 7 ounces, or 200 grams. of silver. 10I signed and sealed the deed, and summoned witnesses, # Jer 32:12, 44 and weighed the money from him in the balances. 11So I took the deed of purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, # Lk 2:27 and that which was open. 12And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, # Jer 32:16; 51:59 the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.
13I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, 14Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel that they may last many days. 15For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. # Jer 30:18; 32:43–44
Jeremiah Prays for Understanding
16Now when I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, # Ge 32:9–12; Jer 12:1 saying:
17Ah Lord God! Truly, You have made the heavens and the earth # 2Ki 19:15 by Your great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for You. # Ge 18:14 18You show lovingkindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them, # Ex 34:7 O great and mighty God. The Lord of Hosts is His name, # Jer 10:16 19great in counsel and mighty in deed, # Isa 28:29 whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. # Jer 17:10 20You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, and in Israel, and among other men, and have made Yourself a name, # Ex 9:16; Ne 9:10 as it is today. 21And You have brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror. # Ex 6:6; Dt 26:8 22And You have given them this land, which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. # Ex 3:8; 13:5 23And they entered and possessed it. # Ps 78:54–55 But they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this calamity to come upon them.
24Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to take it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence, and what You have spoken has come to pass, # Dt 4:26; Jos 23:15–16 and behold, you see it. 25O Lord God, You have said to me, “Buy the field for money and call in witnesses,” although the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
God Promises the People’s Return
26Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying: 27Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. # Nu 16:22; 27:16 Is anything too hard for Me? 28Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, # Jer 19:7–12; 32:3 and he shall take it. 29And the Chaldeans who fight against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it with the houses, # Jer 21:10 upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, # Jer 19:13 to provoke Me to anger.
30Indeed the Israelites and the Judahites have only done evil before Me from their youth. For the Israelites have only provoked Me to anger with the work of their hands, # Dt 9:7–12 says the Lord. 31Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, # 1Ki 11:7–8 even to this day, so that I should remove it from before My face, # 2Ki 23:27 32because of all the evil of the Israelites and of the Judahites which they have done to provoke Me to anger, # Isa 1:4–6 they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, # Jer 2:26 and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33They have turned their back to Me and not their face. # Jer 2:27 Though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have neither listened nor received instruction. # Jer 7:13 34But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. # 2Ki 21:4–7; Jer 7:30 35They built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, # Lev 18:21; 20:2–5 which I had not commanded them, nor did it come into My mind # Jer 7:31 that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
36Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, “It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence”: # Jer 32:3, 24 37Behold, I will gather them out of all countries wherever I have driven them # Jer 23:3 in My anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. # Jer 23:6 38And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. # Jer 24:7; 30:22 39And I will give them one heart and one way, # Dt 11:18–21; 2Ch 30:12 that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for their children after them. 40And I will make an everlasting covenant # Isa 55:3; Jer 50:5 with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts so that they shall not depart from Me. 41Indeed, I will rejoice over them to do them good, # Dt 30:9; Jer 24:6 and I will plant them in this land assuredly with My whole heart and with My whole soul.
42For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great calamity upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. # Jer 31:28; Zec 8:14–15 43Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, # Jer 32:15 It is desolate, without man or beast. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 44Men will buy fields for money, sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the Negev; # Jer 17:26 for I will restore their fortunes, # Jer 33:7 says the Lord.
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