Jeremiah 32:2-44
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.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
prophesying <05012> [Wherefore.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
dealt <06485> [until.]
fight <03898> [though.]
Hanamel <02601> [Behold.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
entitled <04941> [for.]
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.
weighed out <08254> [weighed.]
seven ounces ... silver <08255 03701 07651> [seventeen shekels of silver. or, seven shekels, and ten pieces of silver.]
signed <03789> [I.]
signed ... deed <05612 03789> [subscribed the evidence. Heb. wrote in the book.]
sealed <02856> [and sealed.]
purchase <05749> [and took.]
order of transfer <04687> [according.]
Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
Neriah <05374> [Neriah.]
presence <05869> [and in.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
Houses <01004> [Houses.]
prayed <06419> [I Prayed.]
Oh <0162> [Ah.]
make <06213> [thou.]
<01697> [there.]
[to hard for thee. or, hid from thee.]
show <06213> [shewest.]
punish <07999> [recompensest.]
great <01419> [the Great.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
great <01419> [Great.]
deeds <05950> [work. Heb. doing.]
see <05869> [for.]
reward <05414> [to give.]
did <07760> [hast set.]
<06213> [and hast.]
brought ..... out <03318> [brought.]
great <02389> [with a strong.]
oath <07650> [which.]
kept ... promise .............. land <0776> [a land.]
took possession <03423> [possessed.]
obey <08085> [but.]
do ........ do <06213> [they have.]
disaster <07451> [therefore.]
ramps <05550> [mounts. or, engines of shot.]
The mounts were huge terraces raised up to plant their engines on; and so formed as to be capable of being moved forwards towards the city. See Note on 2 Sa 20:15.
city .............. make ... city <05892 05414> [the city is.]
<06440> [because.]
threatened <01696> [what.]
said <0559> [thou.]
city ............................ silver <03701 05892> [for. or, though.]
God <0430> [God.]
<01697> [is.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
set <03341> [and set.]
rooftops <01406> [upon.]
people <01121> [children.]
earliest history <05271> [from.]
city <05892> [this city.]
anger <0639> [a provocation of mine anger. Heb. for my anger. that I.]
do so .......... made .......... kings ................... have done <06213 04428> [they.]
turned <06437> [turned.]
turning <06203> [back. Heb. neck. rising.]
built <01129> [they built.]
Valley .......................... commanded <01516 06680> [which.]
Ben ......... sons ................................... Judah <01121 03063> [to cause.]
saying <0559> [now.]
make <05414> [It.]
regather <06908> [I will gather.]
"This promise," says Jerome, "taken in its full extent was not made good to those that returned from captivity; because they were frequently infested with wars, as well by the kings of Syria and Egypt as by the rest of their neighbours; and they were finally subdued and destroyed by the Romans." God's word cannot fail; therefore there remaineth yet a rest for the ancient people of God.
live <03427> [I will cause.]
give <05414> [I.]
single-minded ....... way <01870 0259> [one way.]
respect <03372> [they may.]
[for every. Heb. all days. for the.]
make <03772> [I will make.]
<07725> [that I.]
stop <0310> [from them. Heb. from after them. but I.]
delight <07797> [Yea, I.]
plant <05193> [and I.]
faithfully <0571> [assuredly. Heb. in truth, or stability.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [Like.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [so.]
bought <07069> [buy.]
territory <0776> [in the land.]
restore <07622> [for I.]
As an earnest of these promises, houses and lands shall again take a good price in Judah and Jerusalem; and though they now are almost valueless, there shall again be a sufficiency of purchasers. Trade shall revive, for they shall have money enough to buy land with; husbandry shall revive, for those that have money, shall covet to lay it out upon lands; laws shall again have their due course, for they shall subscribe evidences, and seal them.
