Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 32:10
I went through with the purchase, setting my hand to and sealing the deed, and taking witnesses to it, as is usual.
I went through with the purchase, setting my hand to and sealing the deed, and taking witnesses to it, as is usual.
Verse Jeremiah 32:10. _I SUBSCRIBED THE EVIDENCE_] We have here all the circumstances of this legal act: 1. An offer is made of the reversion of the ground, till the jubilee, to him who would then of...
Translate: And I wrote the particulars of the purchase in the deed ... And I took the purchase-deed, both that which was sealed containing the oiler and the conditions, and that which was open etc. Th...
CHAPTER 32 Jeremiah in Prison _ 1. Shut up in the court of the prison (Jeremiah 32:1) _ 2. The revelation of the Lord concerning Hanameel (Jeremiah 32:6) 3. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 32
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; Ru...
THE EVIDENCE. the deed....
See introd. summary to the section....
_And I subscribed the deed_ The following will explain the particulars of Jeremiah's action as given here and in the next _vv_. "Contracts stamped upon clay tablets have been found in Babylonia, enclo...
B. The Purchase of a Field Jeremiah 32:6-15 TRANSLATION (6) And Jeremiah said: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (7) Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come unto you, saying...
_AND I SUBSCRIBED THE EVIDENCE, AND SEALED IT, AND TOOK WITNESSES, AND WEIGHED HIM THE MONEY IN THE BALANCES._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
This chapter forms the introduction to the most continuously historical part of the book, which describes incidents in the two years preceding the final destruction of Jerusalem, viz. chs. 34-43. The...
THE EVIDENCE] RV 'the deed,' and so in Jeremiah 32:11; Jeremiah 32:14; Jeremiah 32:44. Jeremiah made out two copies of the deed, one to be sealed, the other left open, the former to be referred to in...
AND I SUBSCRIBED THE EVIDENCE... — Literally, as in the margin, _I wrote in the book_ — the last word being used for any kind of document, as for an indictment in Job 31:35, and here for a deed of con...
וָ אֶכְתֹּ֤ב בַּ † סֵּ֨פֶר֙ וָֽ אֶחְתֹּ֔ם...
CHAPTER XXX RESTORATION I THE SYMBOL Jeremiah 32:1 "And I bought the field of Hanameel."- Jeremiah 32:9 WHEN Jeremiah was first called to his prophetic mission, after the charge "to pluck up and t...
The next of the prophecies of hope consists of the account of Jeremiah's purchase of a field in Anathoth, with the interpretation of the suggestiveness of the action. While he was still in prison thro...
The Lord was pleased by this token, of causing Jeremiah to buy a portion of land, in the prospect of the loss of all the land, to testify, that his word should stand: and though for a time he gave his...
It may now be asked, how could Hanameel, who was of the Levitical order, sell a field, for we know that fields did not belong to the Levites, and that they had tithes for their inheritance. (Numbers 1...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
AND I SUBSCRIBED THE EVIDENCE,.... Or, "wrote in a book" u; the instrument or bill of sale, the deed of purchase; which described the field sold, and expressed the condition on which the purchase was...
_And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances._ Ver. 10. _And I subscribed the evidence._] Heb., I wrote in the book, and sealed it....
_I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it_ I wrote down an account of the transaction in a book. The method it appears then in use among the Jews when any purchase was made was, that the purchaser, as...
SUBSCRIBED THE EVIDENCE: _ Heb._ wrote in the book...
1-15 Jeremiah, being in prison for his prophecy, purchased a piece of ground. This was to signify, that though Jerusalem was besieged, and the whole country likely to be laid waste, yet the time woul...
Jeremiah 32:10 signed H3789 (H8799) deed H5612 sealed H2856 (H8799) took H5749 (H8686) witnesses...
SUB-PART A. AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION JERUSALEM WILL ONE DAY BE RESTORED, SOMETHING GUARANTEED TO JEREMIAH IN A SYMBOLIC ACT OF PURCHASING FAMILY LAND (JEREMIAH 32:1). Jeremiah is commanded to buy an here...
THE TRANSACTION (JEREMIAH 32:7). Jeremiah 32:7 “Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum your uncle, will come to you, saying, ‘Buy you my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours...
JEREMIAH IS COMMANDED BY YHWH TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF JUDAH BY BUYING LAND FROM HIS COUSIN HANAMEL ON THE DEATH OF HIS UNCLE. BUT EVEN JEREMIAH IS PUZZLED BY IT AND IT DRIVES HI...
Section 2 Subsection 2 Part 2). Having Been Imprisoned During The Siege Of Jerusalem Jeremiah Buys A Piece Of Hereditary Land In Order To Demonstrate Confidence In The Future Of The Land Of Judah, Som...
Jeremiah 32:6. _And Jeremiah, said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for...
Jeremiah 32:1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged J...
CONTENTS: Sign of the field of Hanameel. Jeremiah's second persecution, his prayer and Jehovah's answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Hanameel, Baruch. CONCLUSION: When we are...
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 rav...
_Buy my field, I pray thee._ JEREMIAH’S FAITH I. 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...
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 eight...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah was far from wishing to depress his fellow countrymen to the point of disbelieving in the inalienable promises of God to Israel, He fully recognized an element of truth in the prea...
The 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...
2 Corinthians 1:22; Daniel 8:26; Deuteronomy 32:34; Ephesians 1:13;...