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It took place in the tenth year of Zedekiah, the eighteenth of Nebuchadnezzar (comp. <a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Jeremiah 25:1</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/52-12.htm">Jeremiah 52:12</a>). The siege of Jerusalem had Begun in the preceding year (<a href="/jeremiah/39-1.htm">Jeremiah 39:1</a>), but had been temporarily raised on the approach of an Egyptian army (<a href="/jeremiah/37-5.htm">Jeremiah 37:5, 11</a>). Jeremiah, who had declared resistance hopeless, had been accused of treason, and imprisoned (<a href="/jeremiah/37-13.htm">Jeremiah 37:13</a>), and in prison he remained till the close of the siege. Like St. Paul at Rome, however, he was allowed free communication with visitors, as appears from ver. 8 and <a href="/jeremiah/38-1.htm">Jeremiah 38:1</a>. Vers. 2-5 are parenthetical (see on ver. 6). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-2.htm">Jeremiah 32:2</a></div><div class="verse">For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which <i>was</i> in the king of Judah's house.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">In the court of the prison;</span> or, <span class="accented">the court of the guard</span>, which adjoined the royal palace (<a href="/nehemiah/3-25.htm">Nehemiah 3:25</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-3.htm">Jeremiah 32:3</a></div><div class="verse">For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Had shut him up.</span> A brief and general account of the circumstances related more in full in ch. 37. For the prophecies referred to, see <a href="/jeremiah/34-3.htm">Jeremiah 34:3-5</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/37-17.htm">Jeremiah 37:17</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/38-17.htm">Jeremiah 38:17-23</a> (the following verse is almost identical with <a href="/jeremiah/34-3.htm">Jeremiah 34:3</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-4.htm">Jeremiah 32:4</a></div><div class="verse">And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-5.htm">Jeremiah 32:5</a></div><div class="verse">And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Until I visit him;</span> <span class="accented">i.e.</span> until I take notice of him. "To visit" is used in a good (<a href="/jeremiah/27-22.htm">Jeremiah 27:22</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a>) as well as in a bad sense (<a href="/jeremiah/6-15.htm">Jeremiah 6:15</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-8.htm">Jeremiah 49:8</a>), so that no definite announcement is made respecting Zedekiah's future. There was no object to gain by extending the scope of the revelation beyond the immediate present, and Zedekiah's offences did not require such an anticipative punishment as the clear prediction of the details of his fate (<a href="/jeremiah/39-6.htm">Jeremiah 39:6, 7</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/52-11.htm">Jeremiah 52:11</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-6.htm">Jeremiah 32:6</a></div><div class="verse">And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 6-15.</span> - The purchase of the field. Ver. 6 resumes ver. 1, after the long parenthesis in vers. 2-5. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-7.htm">Jeremiah 32:7</a></div><div class="verse">Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that <i>is</i> in Anathoth: for the right of redemption <i>is</i> thine to buy <i>it</i>.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Hanameel</span>. Another form of <span class="accented">Hananeel</span>; comp. <span class="greek">Γεσάμ</span>, in the Septuagint = Goshen, <span class="greek">Μαδιάμ</span> = Midian. In <a href="/jeremiah/31-38.htm">Jeremiah 31:38</a> the Authorized Version has <span class="accented">Hananeel</span>, and the Septuagint <span class="greek">Ἀναμεήλ</span> (of course, the persons referred to are different). <span class="cmt_word">The son of Shallum thine uncle.</span> It is strange that Hanameel should be called at once Jeremiah's uncle's son and his uncle; and yet this is the case - the former in vers. 8, 9, the latter in ver. 12. There is, therefore, no reason why we should deviate (as most commentators do) from the ordinary Hebrew usage, and suppose "thine uncle" in this verse to refer to Shallum, and not rather to Hanameel. But how are we to explain this singular variation in phraseology? Either from the fact that the Hebrew for "uncle" is simply a word expressive of affection (it means "beloved," see <span class="accented">e.g.</span> <a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm">Isaiah 5:1</a>), and might, therefore, just as well be applied to a cousin as to an uncle: or else. upon the supposition that the word for "son (of)" has fallen out of the text before "mine uncle," both in this verse and in ver. 12. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-8.htm">Jeremiah 32:8</a></div><div class="verse">So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that <i>is</i> in Anathoth, which <i>is</i> in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance <i>is</i> thine, and the redemption <i>is</i> thine; buy <i>it</i> for thyself. Then I knew that this <i>was</i> the word of the LORD.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The right of inheritance</span> (or rather, <span class="accented">of taking</span> <span class="accented">possession</span>) <span class="cmt_word">is thine.</span> The right, however, was dependent on the previous right of redeeming the land. Hence the speaker continues: <span class="cmt_word">The redemption is thine; buy it for thyself.</span> The Law directs, "If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold" (<a href="/leviticus/25-25.htm">Leviticus 25:25</a>). Jeremiah's kinsman, however, ascribes to him the right of pre-emption. This is not mentioned in Leviticus; hut, of course, no one would care to purchase a property till he was sure that the next kinsman would not insist on redeeming it. No one, it may be remarked, could purchase land unconditionally - the usufruct of it till the year of jubilee was all that was legally transferable; and even the original occupant had only a life interest in his land, the ownership of which was, strictly speaking, vested in the commune. This seems to Be the necessary inference from a comprehensive view of the passages relative to land in the Old Testament (see Mr. Fenton's 'Early Hebrew Life; ' and an article in the <span class="accented">Church Quarterly Review</span>, July, 1880). <span class="cmt_word">Then I knew,</span> etc. We may, perhaps, interpret this notice combined with that in ver. 6 thus: Jeremiah had had a presentiment, founded, perhaps, upon the distress to which his cousin had been reduced, that the latter would invite him to carry out the provisions of the Law; and his presentiments were generally so ordered by the Divine Spirit of prophecy as to be ratified by the event. Still, he had a measure of uncertainty till Hanameel actually came to him, and so demonstrated "that this had been the word of the Lord." In recording the circumstances, he not unnaturally reflects his later feeling of certitude in his description of the presentiment. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-9.htm">Jeremiah 32:9</a></div><div class="verse">And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that <i>was</i> in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, <i>even</i> seventeen shekels of silver.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - Seventeen shekels of silver; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> about £2 5<span class="accented">s</span>. 4<span class="accented">d</span>. (taking the shekel at 2<span class="accented">s</span>. 8<span class="accented">d.</span>). This has been thought a small price. Thirty shekels were paid for the potter's field (<a href="/matthew/27-7.htm">Matthew 27:7</a>); fifty by David, for Araunah's threshing floor and oxen (<a href="/2_samuel/24-4.htm">2 Samuel 24:4</a>). The Hebrew has "seven shekels and ten of silver;" hence the Targum increases the price by supplying "minas" before "of silver," bringing up the sum to one hundred and seven shekels. This, however, seems too much. Even if Jeremiah wished to be liberal, he would hardly have been able to go so far (probably) in excess of the market price. Who would have purchased the land on speculation, if Jeremiah had refused? The famine made life, the siege, a continuance of personal liberty, terribly uncertain. And, putting this out of the question, there may have been but a short time to elapse before the year of jubilee, when the land would revert to its original occupant (see above). The singular form of expression in the Hebrew, at which the Targum stumbled, may, perhaps, be the usual style of legal documents. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-10.htm">Jeremiah 32:10</a></div><div class="verse">And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed <i>it</i>, and took witnesses, and weighed <i>him</i> the money in the balances.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 10-14.</span> - The Authorized Version is here so far wrong, on technical terms, that it seems best to retranslate the whole passage: "And I wrote (the circumstances) in the deed, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance. And I took the purchase deed, that which was sealed (containing the offer and the conditions), and that which was open; and I gave the purchase deed unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah (rather, Makhseiah), in the sight of Hanameel my uncle, and in the sight of the witnesses who subscribed the purchase deed, in the sight of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard. And I charged Baruch before them, saying, Thus saith Jehovah Sabaoth, the God of Israel, Take these deeds, this sealed purchase deed, and this open deed; and put them into an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days." The deed was made in two copies, so that if the open one were lost, or suspected of having been tampered with, an appeal might always be made to the sealed copy. The latter was to be placed in an earthen vessel, to preserve it from injury by damp. It ought to be added that the words in ver. 11, rendered "containing the offer and the conditions," are difficult. "Containing" is not expressed in the Hebrew, and "offer" is not the ordinary meaning, though etymologically justifiable. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-11.htm">Jeremiah 32:11</a></div><div class="verse">So I took the evidence of the purchase, <i>both</i> that which was sealed <i>according</i> to the law and custom, and that which was open:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-12.htm">Jeremiah 32:12</a></div><div class="verse">And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's <i>son</i>, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-13.htm">Jeremiah 32:13</a></div><div class="verse">And I charged Baruch before them, saying,</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-14.htm">Jeremiah 32:14</a></div><div class="verse">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-15.htm">Jeremiah 32:15</a></div><div class="verse">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 15.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Shall be possessed;</span> rather, <span class="accented">shall be bought.</span> </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-16.htm">Jeremiah 32:16</a></div><div class="verse">Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 16-25.</span> - Jeremiah obeys the Divine command, but is so besieged by misgivings that he applies for a further revelation of God's purposes. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-17.htm">Jeremiah 32:17</a></div><div class="verse">Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, <i>and</i> there is nothing too hard for thee:</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 17.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Ah, Lord God!</span> rather, <span class="accented">Alas</span>! <span class="accented">O Lord Jehovah</span> (as <a href="/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Too hard for thee.</span> It is the word usually rendered "wonderful," but rather indicating that thing or person lies outside the common order (comp. <a href="/genesis/18-14.htm">Genesis 18:14</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-18.htm">Jeremiah 32:18</a></div><div class="verse">Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, <i>is</i> his name,</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Into the bosom,</span> etc. The ample dress of an Eastern rendering a bag or basket unnecessary (comp. <a href="/ruth/3-15.htm">Ruth 3:15</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-19.htm">Jeremiah 32:19</a></div><div class="verse">Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes <i>are</i> open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-20.htm">Jeremiah 32:20</a></div><div class="verse">Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, <i>even</i> unto this day, and in Israel, and among <i>other</i> men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 20.</span> - Even <span class="cmt_word">unto this day</span>. A loose expression. Jeremiah simply means that signs and wonders equal to those wrought in Egypt have continued to the present time. <span class="cmt_word">And in Israel;</span> rather, <span class="accented">both in Israel.</span> </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-21.htm">Jeremiah 32:21</a></div><div class="verse">And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - Almost identical with <a href="/deuteronomy/26-8.htm">Deuteronomy 26:8</a>. The <span class="cmt_word">great terror</span> which the Israelites inspired is constantly referred to (see <a href="/deuteronomy/2-25.htm">Deuteronomy 2:25</a>; <a href="/exodus/23-27.htm">Exodus 23:27</a>; <a href="/joshua/5-1.htm">Joshua 5:1</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-22.htm">Jeremiah 32:22</a></div><div class="verse">And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-23.htm">Jeremiah 32:23</a></div><div class="verse">And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-24.htm">Jeremiah 32:24</a></div><div class="verse">Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest <i>it</i>.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 24.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Behold the mounts</span> (see as <a href="/jeremiah/6-6.htm">Jeremiah 6:6</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Is given.</span> Resistance being hopeless, Jerusalem was virtually in the hands of its besiegers. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-25.htm">Jeremiah 32:25</a></div><div class="verse">And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 25.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">For the city is given;</span> rather, <span class="accented">whereas.</span> It is a reflection of the prophet's. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-26.htm">Jeremiah 32:26</a></div><div class="verse">Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 26-44.</span> - The Divine answer. This falls into two parts. First, Jehovah repeats the burden of so many prophecies, that Israel has only to blame himself for his punishment (vers. 26-35); and then a bright future is disclosed beyond the gloomy interval of conquest and captivity - a future when men shall buy fields, and comply with all the legal formalities, precisely as Jeremiah has done (vers. 36-44). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-27.htm">Jeremiah 32:27</a></div><div class="verse">Behold, I <i>am</i> the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-28.htm">Jeremiah 32:28</a></div><div class="verse">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 28.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I will give;</span> rather, <span class="accented">I am on the point of giving</span> (present participle). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-29.htm">Jeremiah 32:29</a></div><div class="verse">And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 29.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And burn it.</span> A still more significant prediction to Jewish hearers than to us, for it implies that Jerusalem had become utterly rebellious, and deserved the punishment of the old Canaanitish cities. It was to be made a <span class="accented">cherem</span> (<a href="/deuteronomy/3-6.htm">Deuteronomy 3:6</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-30.htm">Jeremiah 32:30</a></div><div class="verse">For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 30.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">From their youth</span> (see on Jeremiah 3:24, 25; 22:21). <span class="cmt_word">The children of Israel,</span> in the first half of the verse, must have a narrower sense than in the second half. The fall of Jerusalem is the climax of the series of punishments which the two separated and yet (in God's sight) united portions of the people of Israel have had to undergo. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-31.htm">Jeremiah 32:31</a></div><div class="verse">For this city hath been to me <i>as</i> a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 31.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">From the day that they built it.</span> It is useless to tell an impassioned orator that his words are not strictly consistent with primitive history. The Israelites may not have built Jerusalem, but Jeremiah was not to be debarred from the strongest form of expression open to him for such a reason. He means "from the earliest times." </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-32.htm">Jeremiah 32:32</a></div><div class="verse">Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-33.htm">Jeremiah 32:33</a></div><div class="verse">And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching <i>them</i>, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-34.htm">Jeremiah 32:34</a></div><div class="verse">But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 34, 35.</span> - Repeated, with slight variations, from <a href="/jeremiah/7-30.htm">Jeremiah 7:30, 31</a>. "Baal" and "Molech" are identified as in <a href="/jeremiah/19-5.htm">Jeremiah 19:5</a> ( = <a href="/jeremiah/7-31.htm">Jeremiah 7:31</a>), and even more distinctly. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-35.htm">Jeremiah 32:35</a></div><div class="verse">And they built the high places of Baal, which <i>are</i> in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through <i>the fire</i> unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-36.htm">Jeremiah 32:36</a></div><div class="verse">And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 36.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And now therefore.</span> This introduces the strange and lovely contrast to the gloomy picture which has gone before. It will be observed that there is no direct reference to Jerusalem, but the capital was only emphasized before as the heart of the nation, and it would, of course, be no comfort to say that Jerusalem's inhabitants (alone) would be restored. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-37.htm">Jeremiah 32:37</a></div><div class="verse">Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-38.htm">Jeremiah 32:38</a></div><div class="verse">And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-39.htm">Jeremiah 32:39</a></div><div class="verse">And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 39.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">One heart, and one way.</span> Unity is always given as the "note" of the ideal, Messianic period (comp. <a href="/zephaniah/3-9.htm">Zephaniah 3:9</a>; <a href="/zechariah/14-9.htm">Zechariah 14:9</a>; <a href="/john/10-16.htm">John 10:16</a>). <span class="cmt_word">That they may fear me forever</span>. This reminds us of a phrase in the exhortation in <a href="/deuteronomy/4-10.htm">Deuteronomy 4:10</a>, as the next clause does of <a href="/deuteronomy/6-24.htm">Deuteronomy 6:24</a>. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-40.htm">Jeremiah 32:40</a></div><div class="verse">And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 40.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">An everlasting covenant.</span> It is the "new covenant" of <a href="/jeremiah/31-31.htm">Jeremiah 31:31</a>, etc., which is meant (for the phrase, comp. <a href="/isaiah/55-3.htm">Isaiah 55:3</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/37-26.htm">Ezekiel 37:26</a>). <span class="cmt_word">That I will not turn... to do them good.</span> The comma in the Authorized Version impairs the sense. The prophet means, "That I will not cease to show them favour" (comp. <a href="/isaiah/54-10.htm">Isaiah 54:10</a>). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-41.htm">Jeremiah 32:41</a></div><div class="verse">Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 41.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Assuredly</span>; literally, <span class="accented">with faith. fulness</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> with perfect sincerity, without an <span class="accented">arriere pensee</span>, as the next words explain it; comp. <a href="/1_samuel/12-24.htm">1 Samuel 12:24</a>; <a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm">Isaiah 38:3</a> (Graf). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-42.htm">Jeremiah 32:42</a></div><div class="verse">For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 42.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Like as I have brought,</span> etc. The prophet still has in his mind the thought expressed in <a href="/jeremiah/31-28.htm">Jeremiah 31:28</a>, that the brighter part of his revelations must as surely be accomplished as the darker. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-43.htm">Jeremiah 32:43</a></div><div class="verse">And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, <i>It is</i> desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 43.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Fields</span>; rather, <span class="accented">land</span>; the Hebrew has "the field," <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the open country (as <a href="/jeremiah/4-17.htm">Jeremiah 4:17</a>, etc.). We must then continue "in this country," and in ver. 44, "men shall buy lands." </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/jeremiah/32-44.htm">Jeremiah 32:44</a></div><div class="verse">Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal <i>them</i>, 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.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 44.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Subscribe evidences;</span> rather, <span class="accented">write</span> (particulars of their purchase)in <span class="accented">the deed</span> (as ver. 10). <span class="cmt_word">In the land of Benjamin,</span> etc. The catalogue of the districts of the Jewish kingdom heightens the realistic effect (see on Jeremiah 17:26). 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