Jeremiah 32:1-14
Jeremiah Imprisoned
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the atenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 Now at that time the military force of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the acourt of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah, 3 because Zedekiah king of Judah had ashut him up, saying, “Why do you bprophesy, saying, ‘cThus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to dgive this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it; 4 and Zedekiah king of Judah will anot escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will bspeak with him face to face and see him eye to eye; 5 and he will alead Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” declares Yahweh. “If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will bnot succeed”’?”
6 And Jeremiah said, “The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy for yourself my field which is at aAnathoth, for you have the blegal judgment for redemption to buy it.”’ 8 Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the acourt of the guard according to the word of Yahweh and said to me, ‘Buy my field, please, that is at bAnathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the legal judgment for possession, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the cword of Yahweh.
9 “I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I aweighed out the silver for him, seventeen bshekels of silver. 10 And I asigned and bsealed the deed and ccalled in witnesses and weighed out the silver on the scales. 11 Then I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the acommandment and statutes and the open copy, 12 and I gave the deed of purchase to aBaruch the son of bNeriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle’s son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, in the sight of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard. 13 And I commanded Baruch in their sight, saying, 14 ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Take these deeds—this deed of purchase—that is the sealed one as well as this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may last a long time.”
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