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Text -- Jeremiah 32:1-33 (NET)
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Jeremiah Buys a Field
32:1 In the tenth year that Zedekiah was ruling over Judah the Lord spoke to Jeremiah . That was the same as the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar .
32:2 Now at that time , the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem . The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse attached to the royal palace of Judah .
32:3 For King Zedekiah had confined Jeremiah there after he had reproved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah, “Why do you keep prophesying these things ? Why do you keep saying that the Lord says , ‘I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon ? I will let him capture it.
32:4 King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians . He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon . He must answer personally to the king of Babylon and confront him face to face .
32:5 Zedekiah will be carried off to Babylon and will remain there until I have fully dealt with him. I, the Lord , affirm it! Even if you continue to fight against the Babylonians , you cannot win .’”
32:6 So now, Jeremiah said , “The Lord told me,
32:7 ‘Hanamel , the son of your uncle Shallum , will come to you soon. He will say to you, “Buy my field at Anathoth because you are entitled as my closest relative to buy it.”’
32:8 Now it happened just as the Lord had said! My cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse . He said to me, ‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin . Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.’ When this happened, I recognized that the Lord had indeed spoken to me.
32:9 So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel . I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.
32:10 I signed the deed of purchase, sealed it, and had some men serve as witnesses to the purchase. I weighed out the silver for him on a scale .
32:11 There were two copies of the deed of purchase . One was sealed and contained the order of transfer and the conditions of purchase. The other was left unsealed .
32:12 I took both copies of the deed of purchase and gave them to Baruch son of Neriah , the son of Mahseiah . I gave them to him in the presence of my cousin Hanamel , the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase , and all the Judeans who were housed in the courtyard of the guardhouse .
32:13 In the presence of all these people I instructed Baruch ,
32:14 ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says , “Take these documents , both the sealed copy of the deed of purchase and the unsealed copy . Put them in a clay jar so that they may be preserved for a long time to come.”’
32:15 For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says , “Houses , fields , and vineyards will again be bought in this land .”’
Jeremiah’s Prayer of Praise and Bewilderment
32:16 “After I had given the copies of the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah , I prayed to the Lord ,
32:17 ‘Oh , Lord God , you did indeed make heaven and earth by your mighty power and great strength . Nothing is too hard for you!
32:18 You show unfailing love to thousands . But you also punish children for the sins of their parents . You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all .
32:19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds . You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do .
32:20 You did miracles and amazing deeds in the land of Egypt which have had lasting effect. By this means you gained both in Israel and among humankind a renown that lasts to this day .
32:21 You used your mighty power and your great strength to perform miracles and amazing deeds and to bring great terror on the Egyptians. By this means you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt .
32:22 You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors . You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey .
32:23 But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do . So you brought all this disaster on them.
32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city in order to capture it. War , starvation , and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. Lord, you threatened that this would happen . Now you can see that it is already taking place.
32:25 The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians . Yet, in spite of this, you , Lord God , have said to me, “Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed .”’”
The Lord Answers Jeremiah’s Prayer
32:26 The Lord answered Jeremiah .
32:27 “I am the Lord , the God of all humankind . There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.
32:28 Therefore I, the Lord , say : ‘I will indeed hand this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonian army. They will capture it.
32:29 The Babylonian soldiers that are attacking this city will break into it and set it on fire . They will burn it down along with the houses where people have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods on their rooftops .
32:30 This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me from their earliest history until now and because they have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done . I, the Lord , affirm it!
32:31 This will happen because the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now . They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove it from my sight .
32:32 I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness – they , their kings , their officials , their priests , their prophets , and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have done this wickedness.
32:33 They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Baruch |
Jeremiah |
AGRARIAN LAWS |
ZEDEKIAH (2) |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
JEREMIAH (2) |
Hanameel |
Symbols and Similitudes |
Witness |
Land |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Prayer |
HANAMEL |
Anathoth |
SALVATION |
Seal |
Zedekiah |
Contracts |
Prophecy |
EVIDENCE; EVIDENT; EVIDENTLY |
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NET Notes -> Jer 32:1; Jer 32:1; Jer 32:2; Jer 32:2; Jer 32:2; Jer 32:2; Jer 32:3; Jer 32:3; Jer 32:4; Jer 32:4; Jer 32:5; Jer 32:5; Jer 32:5; Jer 32:5; Jer 32:5; Jer 32:6; Jer 32:7; Jer 32:7; Jer 32:8; Jer 32:9; Jer 32:9; Jer 32:10; Jer 32:10; Jer 32:11; Jer 32:12; Jer 32:12; Jer 32:12; Jer 32:12; Jer 32:14; Jer 32:14; Jer 32:15; Jer 32:15; Jer 32:17; Jer 32:17; Jer 32:17; Jer 32:17; Jer 32:18; Jer 32:18; Jer 32:18; Jer 32:19; Jer 32:19; Jer 32:19; Jer 32:20; Jer 32:21; Jer 32:22; Jer 32:22; Jer 32:23; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:25; Jer 32:25; Jer 32:25; Jer 32:25; Jer 32:26; Jer 32:27; Jer 32:27; Jer 32:28; Jer 32:28; Jer 32:28; Jer 32:29; Jer 32:29; Jer 32:30; Jer 32:30; Jer 32:30; Jer 32:30; Jer 32:30; Jer 32:30; Jer 32:31; Jer 32:31; Jer 32:31; Jer 32:31; Jer 32:32; Jer 32:32; Jer 32:33; Jer 32:33; Jer 32:33; Jer 32:33
NET Notes: Jer 32:1 The dating formulas indicate that the date was 588/87 b.c. Zedekiah had begun to reign in 598/97 and Nebuchadnezzar had begun to reign in 605/604 b.c....
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NET Notes: Jer 32:2 Heb “the courtyard of the guarding” or “place of guarding.” This expression occurs only in the book of Jeremiah (32:2, 8, 12; ...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:3 The translation represents an attempt to break up a very long Hebrew sentence with several levels of subordination and embedded quotations and also an...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:4 Heb “his [Zedekiah’s] mouth will speak with his [Nebuchadnezzar’s] mouth and his eyes will see his eyes.” The verbs here are a...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:6 Heb “The word of the Lord came to me, saying.” This verse resumes the narrative introduction in v. 1 which was interrupted by the long par...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:7 Underlying this request are the laws of redemption of property spelled out in Lev 25:25-34 and illustrated in Ruth 4:3-4. Under these laws, if a prope...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:8 Heb “And according to the word of the Lord my cousin Hanamel came to me to the courtyard of the guardhouse and said, ‘…’”...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:9 Coins were not in common use until the postexilic period. Payment in gold and silver was made by cutting off pieces of silver or gold and weighing the...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:10 The words “to the purchase” are not in the text but are implicit in the idiom “I had some witnesses serve as witness.” The wor...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:11 There is some uncertainty about the precise meaning of the phrases translated “the order of transfer and the regulations.” The translation...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:12 The translation follows a number of Hebrew mss and the Greek and Syriac version in reading “the son of my uncles (= my cousin; בּ...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:15 The significance of the symbolic act performed by Jeremiah as explained here was a further promise (see the “again” statements in 31:4, 5,...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:17 Heb “by your great power and your outstretched arm.” See 21:5; 27:5 and the marginal note on 27:5 for this idiom.
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NET Notes: Jer 32:18 Heb “Nothing is too hard for you who show…and who punishes…the great [and] powerful God whose name is Yahweh of armies, [you who are...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:19 Heb “giving to each according to his way [= behavior/conduct] and according to the fruit of his deeds.”
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NET Notes: Jer 32:20 Or “You did miracles and amazing deeds in the land of Egypt. And you continue to do them until this day both in Israel and among mankind. By thi...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:21 Heb “You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders and with a mighty hand and with outstretched arm and with gr...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:22 For an alternative translation of the expression “a land flowing with milk and honey” see the translator’s note on 11:5.
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NET Notes: Jer 32:23 Or “They did not do everything that you commanded them to do.” This is probably a case where the negative (לֹא, lo’...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:27 This statement furnishes the grounds both for the assurance that the city will indeed be delivered over to Nebuchadnezzar (vv. 28-29a) and that it wil...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:31 Heb “For this city has been to me for a source of my anger and my wrath from the day they built it until this day so as remove it.” The pr...
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NET Notes: Jer 32:32 Heb “remove it from my sight 32:33 because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and the children of Judah which they have done to mak...
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