Jeremiah 32
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Jeremiah’s Land Purchase
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah#2Kg 24:17–20; 2Ch 36:10–12; Jr 27:1–11 of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.#Jr 29:1 2At that time, the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem,#Jr 39:1 and the prophet Jeremiah was imprisoned in the guard’s courtyard#Neh 3:25; Jr 33:1; 37:21; 38:6; 39:14 in the palace of the king of Judah. 3King Zedekiah of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why are you prophesying as you do? You say, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to hand this city over to Babylon’s king, and he will capture it. 4King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Chaldeans; indeed, he will certainly be handed over to Babylon’s king. They will speak face to face#32:4 Lit His mouth will speak with his mouth and meet eye to eye.#Jr 34:3 5He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him — this is the Lord’s declaration. For you will fight the Chaldeans, but you will not succeed.’”#Jr 21:3–7; 27:22; 34:2–3; 37:11–14
6Jeremiah replied, “The word of the Lord came to me: 7Watch! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy my field in Anathoth#1Kg 2:26; Jr 1:1; 11:21,23 for yourself, for you own the right of redemption#Lv 25:24–52; Ru 4:1–7 to buy it.’
8“Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. 9So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out the silver to him#Gn 23:16; Zch 11:12 — seventeen shekels#32:9 About seven ounces of silver. 10I recorded it on a scroll,#Jr 32:44 sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. 11I took the purchase agreement — the sealed copy with its terms and conditions and the open copy — 12and gave the purchase agreement to Baruch#Jr 36:4–32; 43:3,6; 45:1–2 son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah. I did this in the sight of my cousin#32:12 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read uncle Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the purchase agreement, and all the Judeans sitting in the guard’s courtyard.
13“I charged Baruch in their sight, 14‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Take these scrolls — this purchase agreement with the sealed copy and this open copy — and put them in an earthen storage jar so they will last a long time. 15For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’#Jr 32:43
16“After I had given the purchase agreement to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:#Jr 42:4 17Oh, Lord God! You yourself made the heavens and earth#2Kg 19:15; 2Ch 2:12; Is 37:16 by your great power#Dt 4:37; Neh 1:10; Jr 27:5 and with your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!#Gn 18:14; Ex 3:20; 15:11; 34:10; Dt 17:8; Ps 40:5; 78:4; Jr 32:27; Zch 8:6; Mt 17:20; 19:26 18You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them,#Ex 20:5–6; 34:7; Nm 14:18; Dt 5:9–10; 7:9 great and mighty God#Neh 9:32 whose name is the Lord of Armies, 19the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men#32:19 Or Adam in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.#Jr 4:18; 17:10 20You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt#Ex 1–15; Dt 6:22; Neh 9:10 and still do today, both in Israel and among all mankind. You made a name#Is 63:12,14; Dn 9:15 for yourself, as is the case today. 21You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.#Ex 7:3; Dt 4:34; 6:22; 26:8; 34:11; Ps 78:43; 135:9 22You gave them this land you swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.#Ex 3:8,17; Lv 20:24; Nm 13:27; Dt 26:9 23They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey you or live according to your instructions.#Nm 14:22; Dt 28:45,62; Jos 5:6; Jdg 6:10; 2Kg 18:12; Ps 78:10; 81:11; Is 42:24; Jr 9:13; 32:23; 44:10 They failed to perform all you commanded them to do,#Jr 11:8 and so you have brought all this disaster on them. 24Look! Siege ramps#2Kg 25:1; Jr 6:6; Ezk 4:2 have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you have spoken has happened. Look, you can see it! 25Yet you, Lord God, have said to me, ‘Purchase the field and call in witnesses’ — even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans!”
26The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 27“Look, I am the Lord, the God over every creature.#Nm 16:22; 27:16 Is anything too difficult for me?#Gn 18:4 28Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the Chaldeans,#Jr 32:3 to Babylon’s king Nebuchadnezzar, and he will capture it. 29The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.#Jr 11:17; 44:3,8 30From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in my sight! They have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands”#Jr 25:7 — this is the Lord’s declaration — 31“for this city has caused my wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. I will therefore remove it from my presence#2Kg 23:27; 24:3 32because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me — they, their kings,#Jr 2:26 their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem. 33They have turned their backs to me and not their faces.#2Ch 29:6; Jr 2:27; 18:17; Ezk 8:16 Though I taught them time and time again,#32:33 Lit them, rising up early and teaching#Jr 7:13,25; 11:7; 25:3; 26:5; 29:19; 35:14,15; 44:4 they do not listen and receive discipline. 34They have placed their abhorrent things#Jr 4:1; 7:30; Ezk 5:11 in the house that bears my name and have defiled it. 35They have built the high places of Baal in Ben Hinnom Valley to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire#32:35 Lit to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech#Lv 18:21; 20:2–5; Dt 18:10; 2Kg 23:10; Jr 7:31; 19:4 — something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought#32:35 Lit them, and it did not arise on my heart that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!
36“Now therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to this city about which you said, ‘It has been handed over to Babylon’s king through sword, famine, and plague’: 37I will certainly gather them from all the lands where I have banished them in my anger, fury, and intense wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them live in safety.#Dt 12:10; Is 11:12; Jr 23:3; 29:14; 30:10; 31:8–14; Ezk 11:17; 28:26; 34:25,28; 36:24 38They will be my people, and I will be their God.#Jr 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; Ezk 11:20; 14:11; 36:28; 37:23 39I will give them integrity of heart#Ezk 11:19 and action#32:39 Lit give them one heart and one way so that they will fear me always, for their good and for the good of their descendants after them.
40“I will make a permanent covenant with them:#Gn 17:7,13,19; Is 55:3; 61:8; Jr 50:5; Ezk 16:60; 37:26 I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of me in their hearts so they will never again turn away from me.#Dt 19:20; Is 2:4; 60:18; Jr 3:16; 30:8; 31:34; Ezk 29:16; Jl 2:26–27; Am 9:15; Mc 4:3; Nah 1:15; Zph 3:11; Heb 8:11; 10:17 41I will take delight in them to do what is good for them, and with all my heart and mind I will faithfully plant them in this land.#Jr 24:6
42“For this is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all this terrible disaster on these people,#Jr 31:28 so am I about to bring on them all the good I am promising them. 43Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying,#Jr 32:15 ‘It’s a desolation#Jr 33:10 without people or animals; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans!’ 44Fields will be purchased, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed,#Jr 32:10 and witnesses will be called on in the land of Benjamin,#Jr 17:26 in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in Judah’s cities — the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, and the cities of the Negev — because I will restore their fortunes.”#32:44 Or will end their captivity
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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Jeremiah 32
32
Jeremiah Buys a Field
1This is the word the Lord spoke to Jeremiah. It was in the tenth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah. The tenth year of Zedekiah was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2At that time the army of Babylon was surrounding Jerusalem. Jeremiah was under arrest in the courtyard of the guard. This courtyard was at the palace of the king of Judah.
3Zedekiah king of Judah had put Jeremiah in prison there. Zedekiah had asked, “Why have you prophesied the things you have?” (Jeremiah had said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I will soon give the city of Jerusalem to the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar will capture this city. 4Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the army of the Babylonians. But he will surely be given to the king of Babylon. And Zedekiah will speak to the king of Babylon face to face. Zedekiah will see him with his own eyes. 5The king of Babylon will take Zedekiah to Babylon. Zedekiah will stay there until I have punished him,’ says the Lord. ‘If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”)
6While Jeremiah was prisoner, he said, “The Lord spoke his word to me. He said: 7Jeremiah, your cousin Hanamel will come to you soon. He is the son of your uncle Shallum. Hanamel will say to you, ‘Jeremiah, you are my nearest relative. So buy my field near the town of Anathoth. It is your right and your responsibility to buy that field.’
8“Then it happened just as the Lord had said. My cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard. He said to me, ‘Buy my field near Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. Buy that land for yourself. It is your right to buy it and own it.’ So I knew this was a message from the Lord.
9“I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver for him. 10I signed the record that showed I now owned the field. And I had a copy of the record sealed up. Some men witnessed it and signed it also. And I weighed out the silver on the scales. 11Then I took the sealed copy of the record of ownership. And I took the copy that was not sealed. 12And I gave them to Baruch son of Neriah. Neriah was the son of Mahseiah. The sealed copy of the record of ownership had all the demands and limits of my purchase. I gave this paper of ownership to Baruch. It was while my cousin Hanamel and the other witnesses were there. Those witnesses also signed the record of ownership. There were also many Jews sitting in the courtyard. And they saw me give the record of ownership to Baruch.
13“With all the people watching, I said to Baruch, 14‘This is what the Lord of heaven’s armies, the God of Israel, says: Take both copies of the record of ownership. Take both the sealed copy and the copy that was not sealed. And put them in a clay jar. Do this so that they will last a long time. 15This is what the Lord of heaven’s armies, the God of Israel, says: In the future my people will once again buy houses. They will also buy fields for grain and vineyards in the land of Israel.’
16“I gave the record of ownership to Baruch son of Neriah. Then I prayed to the Lord. I said: 17Oh, Lord God, you made the skies and the earth. You made them with your very great power. There is nothing too wonderful for you to do. 18Lord, you show love and kindness to thousands of people. But you also bring punishment to children for their fathers’ sins. Great and powerful God, your name is the Lord of heaven’s armies. 19You plan and do great things, Lord. You see everything that people do. You reward people for the way they live and for what they do. 20Lord, you did miracles and wonderful things in the land of Egypt. You have kept on doing them even until today. You did miracles in Israel and among the other nations. You have become well known. 21Lord, you used signs and miracles and brought your people, the Israelites, out of Egypt. You used your great power and strength to do those things. You brought great terror on everyone. 22Lord, you gave this land to the people of Israel. This is the land you promised to their ancestors long ago. It’s a land where much food grows. 23The people of Israel came into this land and took it for their own. But those people did not obey you. They did not follow your teachings. They did not do the things you commanded. So you made all these terrible things happen to them.
24“And now, the enemy has surrounded the city. They are building roads to the top of the walls. There will be war, hunger and terrible diseases. These will cause the city to be handed over to the Babylonians. They are attacking the city now. Lord, you said this would happen. And now you see it is happening. 25But now, Lord God, you are telling me, ‘Buy the field with silver. Choose some men to watch while I purchase it.’ You are telling me this while the Babylonian army is ready to capture the city.”
26Then the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah: 27“I am the Lord. I am the God of every person on the earth. You know that nothing is impossible for me. 28So this is what I say: I will soon give the city of Jerusalem to the Babylonian army. And I will give it to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. That army will capture the city. 29The Babylonian army is already attacking the city of Jerusalem. They will soon enter the city and start a fire to burn down the city. They will also burn down the houses. The people of Jerusalem made me angry. They offered sacrifices to Baal on the roofs# In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship and as a place to sleep in the summer. of their houses. And the people poured out drink offerings to other idols. 30The people of Israel and Judah have done only the things I said were wrong. They have done this since they were young. They have made me angry by worshiping idols made with their own hands,” says the Lord. 31“From the day Jerusalem was built until now, they have made me very angry. Jerusalem has made me so angry I must remove it from my sight. 32I will destroy it. This is because of the evil the people of Israel and Judah have done. The people, their kings and officers have made me angry. Their priests and prophets have made me angry. All the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem have made me angry. 33They turned their backs to me. I tried to teach them again and again. But they wouldn’t listen to me. I tried to correct them, but they wouldn’t listen. 34They put their hated idols in the place where I have chosen to be worshiped. In this way they made it unclean. 35In the Valley of Ben Hinnom those people built places to worship Baal. They built them so they could burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to Molech. But I never commanded them to do such a hated thing. I never even thought of it! This would make Judah sin.
36“You are saying, ‘There will be war, hunger and terrible diseases. So the city will be handed over to the king of Babylon.’ But the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 37I have forced the people of Israel and Judah to leave their land. I was very furious and angry with them. But I will gather them from the land where I forced them to go. I will bring them back to this place. I will let them live in peace and safety. 38The people of Israel and Judah will be my people. And I will be their God. 39I will make them want to be truly one people. They will have one goal. They will truly want to worship me all their lives. They will do this for their own good and for their children after them.
40“I will make an agreement with them. This agreement will last forever. And I will never turn away from them. I will always be good to them. I will make them want to respect me. Then they will never turn away from me. 41I will enjoy doing good to them. And I will surely plant them in this land and make them grow. I will do this with my whole being.”
42This is what the Lord says: “I have brought this great disaster to the people of Israel and Judah. In the same way I will bring good things to them. I promise to do good things for them. 43You are saying, ‘This land is an empty desert. There are no people or animals here. The Babylonian army defeated this country.’ But in the future, people will once again buy fields in this land. 44They will use their money and buy fields. They will sign and seal their agreements. People will witness their signing records of ownership. They will again buy fields in the land of Benjamin and in the area around Jerusalem. They will buy fields in the towns of Judah and in the mountains. They will buy them in the western mountain slopes and in southern Judah. This is because I will make everything as good as it once was,” says the Lord.
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