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Jeremiah 32:26

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Baruch;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
Hebrew Names Version
Then came the word of the LORD to Yirmeyahu, saying,
King James Version
Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying,
English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke this word to Jeremiah:
Amplified Bible
Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
World English Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came the worde of the Lord vnto Ieremiah, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Contemporary English Version
The Lord explained:
Complete Jewish Bible
Then this word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then this message from the Lord came to Jeremiah:
George Lamsa Translation
Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
Good News Translation
Then the Lord said to me,
Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to Jeremiah, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me, sayenge:
American Standard Version
Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Then came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto Ieremie, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdom s which are on the face of the earth.
English Revised Version
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to Jeremye, and seide, Lo!
Update Bible Version
Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
New English Translation
The Lord answered Jeremiah.
New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
New Living Translation
Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord :
New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh, unto Jeremiah, saying: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Young's Literal Translation
And the word of Jehovah is unto Jeremiah, saying:
THE MESSAGE
Then God 's Message came again to Jeremiah: "Stay alert! I am God , the God of everything living. Is there anything I can't do? So listen to God 's Message: No doubt about it, I'm handing this city over to the Babylonians and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He'll take it. The attacking Chaldeans will break through and burn the city down: All those houses whose roofs were used as altars for offerings to Baal and the worship of who knows how many other gods provoked me. It isn't as if this were the first time they had provoked me. The people of Israel and Judah have been doing this for a long time—doing what I hate, making me angry by the way they live." God 's Decree.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

Contextual Overview

26 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 27 See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it? 28 So this is what the Lord has said: See, I am giving this town into the hands of the Chaldaeans and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it: 29 And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath. 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord. 31 For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face: 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. 33 And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching. 34 But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean. 35 And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 32:1
And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.
Genesis 32:6
When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.
Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;
Genesis 32:8
And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.
Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:
Genesis 32:12
And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
Genesis 32:13
Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,
Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
Genesis 32:29
Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.
Exodus 32:10
Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah,.... This is an answer to the prophet's prayer, and particularly to the latter part of it; showing the consistency of the destruction of the city with his purchase of a field, and with God's promise of fields and vineyards being purchased and possessed again; and how each of these would be brought about:

saying; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The answer is divided into two parts;

(a) Jeremiah 32:26-35, the sins of Judah are shown to be the cause of her punishment:

(b) Jeremiah 32:36-44, 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 Jeremiah 32:20, and so did Israel’s sin.

Jeremiah 32:34, Jeremiah 32:35

These verses are repeated from Jeremiah 7:30-31, but with two important variations. Baal is put for Tophet, and to Molech instead of in the fire. Molech the king and Baal the lord are different names of the sun-god, but in altered relations. Molech is the sun as the mighty fire, which in passing through the signs of the Zodiac burns up its own children. It is an old Canaanite worship, carried by the Phoenicians to all their colonies, and firmly established in Palestine at the time when the Israelites conquered the country.

Jeremiah 32:39

One heart, and one way - Compare Jeremiah 3:13. Under the new covenant they will with one consent walk in the one narrow path of right-doing Matthew 7:14. Forever, i. e., every day, constantly.

Jeremiah 32:40

God’s new covenant Jeremiah 31:31 is on God’s side, I will not turn away from them to do them good, i. e., I will never cease from doing them good. On their side, I will put My fear in their hearts that they depart not from Me. In these two conditions consists the certainty of the eternal duration of the covenant Matthew 28:20.

Jeremiah 32:41

Assuredly - literally, in truth, i. e., in verity, in reality. It refers to God’s firm purpose, rather than to the safety and security of the people. The new covenant is one of grace, indicated by God’s rejoicing over His people, and “planting them with His whole heart.”

Jeremiah 32:43

Fields - literally, The field, the open unenclosed country Jeremiah 4:17. In Jeremiah 32:44 fields refers to the several portions of it which belonged to individuals, and of which the boundaries were shown by landmarks.

Jeremiah 32:44

Subscribe evidences - See Jeremiah 32:10. In order to bring the certainty of the return from exile more vividly before the mind, the prophet enumerates the several subdivisions of the territory of the kings of Judah.


 
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