Discovery Box| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 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<n id="1" /> as my closest relative to buy it.”’<n id="2" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 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.<n id="1" /> So you brought all this disaster on them. |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 32:29 |
| The Babylonian soldiers<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 32:31 |
| This will happen because<n id="1" /> the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now.<n id="2" /> They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove<n id="3" /> it from my sight. |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 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<n id="1" /> have done this wickedness.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 32:36 |
| <p class="bodytext">“You and your people<n id="1" /> are right in saying, ‘War,<n id="2" /> starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.’<n id="3" /> But now I, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, have something further to say about this city:<n id="4" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 32:42 |
| <p class="bodytext">“For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> ‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 33:5 |
| ‘The defenders of the city will go out and fight with the Babylonians.<n id="1" /> But they will only fill those houses and buildings with the dead bodies of the people that I will kill in my anger and my wrath.<n id="2" /> That will happen because I have decided to turn my back on<n id="3" /> this city on account of the wicked things they have done.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 33:10 |
| <p class="bodytext">“I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> ‘You and your people are saying<n id="2" /> about this place, “It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it.” That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem<n id="3" /> will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places. |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 33:22 |
| I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’”<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 33:24 |
| “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying,<n id="1" /> ‘The <sc>Lordsc> has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah<n id="2" /> that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 34:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah while King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was attacking Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and the towns around it with a large army. This army consisted of troops from his own army and from the kingdoms and peoples of the lands under his dominion.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 34:5 |
| You will die a peaceful death. They will burn incense at your burial just as they did at the burial of your ancestors, the former kings who preceded you.<n id="1" /> They will mourn for you, saying, “Poor, poor master!”<n id="2" /> Indeed, you have my own word on this.<n id="3" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!’”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 34:10 |
| All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 34:14 |
| “Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.”<n id="1" /> But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me. |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 34:15 |
| Recently, however, you yourselves<n id="1" /> showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 34:16 |
| But then you turned right around<n id="1" /> and showed that you did not honor me.<n id="2" /> Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 35:7 |
| Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one.<n id="1" /> Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will<n id="2" /> live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’<n id="3" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 36:2 |
| “Get a scroll.<n id="1" /> Write on it everything I have told you to say<n id="2" /> about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.9301913729128) | Jer 36:3 |
| Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the disaster I intend to bring on them, they will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing.<n id="1" /> If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.”<n id="2" />p> |
