Jeremiah 32
Jeremiah Buys a Field
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the
LORD in the tenth year of Zedeki'ah 2 Kgs.
25.1-7 king of Judah, which was the eighteenth
year of Nebuchadrez'zar.
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For then the king of Babylon's army
besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the
court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's
house.
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For Zedeki'ah king of Judah had shut him
up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
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and Zedeki'ah king of Judah shall not
escape out of the hand of the Chalde'ans, but shall surely be
delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with
him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
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and he shall lead Zedeki'ah to Babylon,
and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chalde'ans, ye shall
not prosper?
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And Jeremiah said, The word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
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Behold, Han'ameel the son of Shallum
thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in An'athoth: for the right of redemption is thine
to buy it.
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So Han'ameel mine uncle's son came to me
in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee,
that is in An'athoth, which is in the country of
Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the
redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew
that this was the word of the LORD.
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And I bought the field of Han'ameel my
uncle's son, that was in An'athoth, and weighed him the
money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
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And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in
the balances.
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So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and
custom, and that which was open:
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and I gave the evidence of the purchase
unto Baruch the son of Neri'ah, the son of Ma-asei'ah, in the sight
of Han'ameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the
witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the
Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
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And I charged Baruch before them,
saying,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of
the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open;
and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many
days.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields
and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
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Now when I had delivered the evidence
of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neri'ah, I prayed unto the
LORD, saying,
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Ah Lord GOD! behold,
thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and
stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for
thee:
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thou showest loving-kindness unto
thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the
bosom of their children after them: The Great, The Mighty God, The
LORD of hosts, is his name;
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great in counsel, and mighty in work: for
thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to
give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of
his doings:
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which hast set signs and wonders in the
land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this
day;
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and hast brought forth thy people Israel
out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a
strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great
terror;
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and hast given them this land, which thou
didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk
and honey;
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and they came in, and possessed it; but
they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done
nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
caused all this evil to come upon them.
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Behold the mounts, they are come unto the
city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the
Chalde'ans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the
famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to
pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
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And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses;
for the city is given into the hand of the Chalde'ans.
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Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
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Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too
hard for me?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of
the Chalde'ans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of
Babylon, and he shall take it: 2 Kgs. 25.1-11 · 2 Chr.
36.17-21
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and the Chalde'ans, that fight against
this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with
the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Ba'al,
and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to
anger.
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For the children of Israel and the
children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth:
for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the
work of their hands, saith the LORD.
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For this city hath been to me as a
provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they
built it even unto this day, that I should remove it from before my
face;
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because of all the evil of the children
of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to
provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their
priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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And they have turned unto me the back,
and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive
instruction.
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But they set their abominations in the
house, which is called by my name, to defile it. 2 Kgs. 23.10 · Jer. 7.30, 31 ; 19.1-6
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And they built the high places of Ba'al,
which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, 2 Kgs. 23.10 · Jer. 7.31 to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; Lev. 18.21 which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind,
that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to
sin.
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And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof
ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon
by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
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Behold, I will gather them out of all
countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury,
and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and
I will cause them to dwell safely:
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and they shall be my people, and I will
be their God:
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and I will give them one heart, and one
way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of
their children after them:
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and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but
I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from
me.
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Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them
good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole
heart and with my whole soul.
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For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon
this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have
promised them.
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And fields shall be bought in this land,
whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is
given into the hand of the Chalde'ans.
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Men shall buy fields for money, and
subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the
land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the
cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the
cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will
cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
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