Jeremiah 32:44

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. MEN SHALL BUY FIELDS ... AND SUBSCRIBE EVIDENCES, AND SEAL THEM - referring to the forms of contract (Jeremiah 32:10). IN ... BENJAMIN - specified as Anathoth: Jeremiah's place of residence, where the field lay (), was in it. Remarks: (1) The promises of God are as sure as if they were already performances. Jeremiah in a prison is told by God to buy a patrimonial field which was then in t...

To shew more fully what is said in the preceding verse, he adds, _Fields with money shall be bought, and by writing _(the verbs are in the infinitive mood) they _shall write on tablets and sign by witnesses _even _if the land of Benjamin _(85) Then the Prophet mentions all the boundaries by which Jerusalem was surrounded. We know that a part of the city was in the lot of Benjamin, and even one gate was so called: _in the land of Benjamin, _he says, and also _through the circuits of Jerusalem, even in the cities of Judah, _those on the _mountains, _as well as those _in the valley, and in the cities _which he to _the south, _even Egypt, for the southern country was towards Egypt. The reason is added, _Because God _would _restore _their _captivity, _that, is, restore the captives that they might again rossess the land. Now follows, — Fields with money shall they buy; And there shall be...

26-44 God's answer discovers the purposes of his wrath against that generation of the Jews, and the purposes of his grace concerning future generations. It is sin, and nothing else, that ruins them. The restoration of Judah and Jerusalem is promised. This people were now at length brought to despair. But God gives hope of mercy which he had in store for them hereafter. Doubtless the promises are sure to all believers. God will own them for his, and he will prove himself theirs. He will give them a heart to fear him. All true Christians shall have a disposition to mutual love. Though they may have different views about lesser things, they shall all be one in the great things of God; in their views of the evil of sin, and the low estate of fallen man, the way of salvation through the Saviour, the nature of true holiness, the vanity of the world, and the importance of eternal things. Whom...

Verse Jeremiah 32:44. _MEN SHALL BUY FIELDS FOR MONEY_] This is a reference to the symbolical purchase mentioned at the beginning of the chapter; _that_ may be considered by them as a sure sign of their restoration, not only to the _same land_, but to their respective inheritances in that land. This the power of God could alone perform....

The answer is divided into two parts; (a) Jeremiah 32:26, the sins of Judah are shown to be the cause of her punishment: (b) Jeremiah 32:36, this punishment was not for Judah’s destruction, but for her amendment. Jeremiah 32:28 I WILL GIVE - Or, I am giving. Jeremiah 32:30 FROM THEIR YOUTH - God’s mighty deeds for Israel began in Egypt J

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 preaching of the "false prophets," viz. that Jehovah was still the God of his people Israel, though for wise purposes he chose to hide his face for a time. His own faith was intense, to the pitch of an even Roman heroism (see Livy, Jeremiah 26:11). The opportunity (or rather—see below—the fight) of purchasing a piece of ground at Anathoth was the occasion which called forth the most striking proof of his sublime confidence in God. Not that he understood how it could be God's will that he, in the besieged city, should constitute himself a landed proprietor. He had his difficulties; but instead of brooding over them, he laid them Before Jehovah in prayer. And the Divine revelation

MEN SHALL BUY FIELDS FOR MONEY,.... They shall have plenty of money, and they shall lay it out in land, and carry on husbandry, cultivate the ground, which had lain long untilled, but now should be manured for public as well as private good. This some understand of particular churches planted in Judea, and out of it, throughout the whole world; and of men's gathering and joining themselves to them by a profession of that faith which is more precious than gold or silver: AND SUBSCRIBE EVIDENCES, AND SEAL [THEM], AND TAKE WITNESSES; as Jeremiah had done before, when he bought the field of his uncle's son, Jeremiah 32:10. This is spiritually understood by some of the word of God laid hold on by faith; of the sealing of the Spirit, and of the ordinances of the Gospel: IN THE LAND OF BENJAMIN; where Anathoth was, and Jeremiah's field lay; a

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 32:16) 4. Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 32:26) Jeremiah 32:1. The siege of Jerusalem began in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. It was in the tenth year, a year later (Jeremiah 39:1) that we find Jeremiah in prison.

Yahweh answers the prophet by declaring the issue and cause of the present distress, and by promising (Jeremiah 32:36 ff.) the future restoration of the people to Palestine, where they shall dwell in religious unity and in prosperity. Most or all of this seems later than Jeremiah; _e.g._ Jeremiah 32:31 agrees with Ezekiel (Ezekiel 16), rather than with Jeremiah 32:43 presupposes the exile; Jeremiah 32:27 is irrelevant to the context. Jeremiah 32:29. _Cf._...

MEN. Not in Hebrew Should be in italic type. MOUNTAINS. hill country. CAPTIVITY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for captives....