Jeremiah 32:2
king ..................... royal <04428> [then.]
The siege had commenced on the tenth month of the preceding year, and continued a year after, ending in the fifth month of the following year; consequently the siege must have lasted eighteen months and twenty-seven days. See 2 Ki 25:18.
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
king .............. courtyard ........ royal <02691 04428> [in the.]
Jeremiah 32:8
courtyard <02691> [court.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
recognized <03045> [Then I.]
said .............................................................. spoken <01697> [that this.]
That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2Å“. 2s. 6d.
