jeremiah-32:6,-jeremiah-32:7

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:6-15

Jeremiah 32:6-Ezra : . Jeremiah, after a premonition of the coming opportunity (subsequently confirmed as being of Divine origin, Jeremiah 32:8) uses the “ right of redemption” belonging to the next-of-kin ( Leviticus 25:25; Ruth 4:3 ff.) to buy family property in Anathoth ( Jeremiah 32:11) from his cousin Hanamel; he duly executes the purchase with all legal precision. By this prophetic act, he exhibited his confidence that land now in the enemy’ s occupation would ultimately be restored to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-44

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter.—“Tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, and eighteenth of Nebuchadnezzar” (Jeremiah 32:1). Cf. note on chronology of chap. 25: “this eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar” was about B.C. 585; or, according to the Chaldean cylinders, B.C. 564.2. Contemporary Scriptures.—chaps. 39., 40, Jeremiah 52:4-5, &c.; 2 Kings 25:0; 2 Chronicles 36:17, seq.; Ezekiel 24:0.3. National Affairs.—The siege of Jerusalem began in the tenth month of the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-44

Chapter 32The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar ( Jeremiah 32:1 ).Now in the eleventh year of Zedekiah is when Jerusalem fell. So this is right at the end.For then [even at this time, the tenth year] the king of Babylon's army had besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house. For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 32:1-44

Jeremiah 32:1 . The eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. This name, which in Hebrew signifies groaning and complaint, aptly describes the miseries he inflicted on the nations. Like an inundation he ravaged all the conquered states, instead of watering them. He was son of Merodach, and founder of the Babylonian empire. Daniel 2:7. He is called the head of gold, and the flying eagle. In the first year of his military career, which was the twenty ninth of king Josiah, he ruined Nineveh, and put... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 32:1-15

Jeremiah 32:1-15Buy my field, I pray thee.Jeremiah’s faithI. Faith is here illustrated as resting exclusively upon the word of God. All that Jeremiah did in this matter he did just because he had a command from the Lord. Whilst he was in prison, God told him that his cousin should come and offer him the redemption of a part at least of the family inheritance. The man came, and he “knew that this was the Word of the Lord”; therefore he bought the field. It is not to be supposed that he was rich.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 32:6

Jer 32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 6. The word of the Lord came unto me, saying. ] He had God’s word for his warrant, and this bore him out against the jeers of the ungodly, who would easily think it a very simple part in him who prophesied a desolation of the whole land to go about to buy land. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 32:6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 24:21 - To buy Jeremiah 32:44 - buy read more