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Text -- Jeremiah 32:1-19 (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 .
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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 |
JEREMIAH (2) |
AGRARIAN LAWS |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
ZEDEKIAH (2) |
Hanameel |
Symbols and Similitudes |
Witness |
HANAMEL |
SALVATION |
Anathoth |
Land |
Seal |
Zedekiah |
Contracts |
EVIDENCE; EVIDENT; EVIDENTLY |
Prophecy |
Maaseiah |
ARK OF THE COVENANT |
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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
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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