Jeremia 32:7

Lutherbibel

Siehe, Hanameel, der Sohn Sallums, deines Oheims, kommt zu dir und wird sagen: Kaufe du meinen Acker zu Anathoth; denn du hast das nächste Freundrecht dazu, daß du ihn kaufen sollst.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Siehe, Hanameel, der Sohn deines Oheims Sallum, wird zu dir kommen und sagen: Kaufe dir meinen Acker, der zu Anatot liegt; denn dir steht das Lösungsrecht zu, ihn zu kaufen!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Behold: 1 Kings 14:5, Mark 11:2-6, Mark 14:13-16

Anathoth: Jeremiah 1:1, Jeremiah 11:21, Joshua 21:18, Joshua 21:19

for: Leviticus 25:23, Leviticus 25:34, Leviticus 25:49, Numbers 35:2, Ruth 4:4-9

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:11 - in the Genesis 23:17 - made sure Leviticus 25:25 - General Esther 2:7 - his uncle's Jeremiah 32:8 - Anathoth Ezekiel 7:12 - let Ephesians 1:14 - the redemption

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee,.... Hilkiah, the father of Jeremiah, and this Shallum, were own brothers; so that Jeremiah and Hanameel were brothers' sons, or own cousins: this coming of Hanameel to Jeremiah being a contingent event, with respect to second causes, and yet foretold as what would certainly be, shows that such events are foreknown by the Lord, and are sure to him:

saying, buy thee my field that [is] in Anathoth; the place from whence Jeremiah came, and was but about two or three miles from Jerusalem, and therefore must be now in the possession of the Chaldean army; wherefore it may seem very strange in Hanameel to propose it to sale, and stranger still in Jeremiah to buy it: though something of this kind was done at Rome, while Hannibal was besieging it; the field where Hannibal pitched his camp was offered to sale at Rome, and found a buyer t; but then he that bought it was in high spirits, and in a strong belief that the city would not be taken, and that the enemy would be obliged to quit the siege; but Jeremiah knew, and firmly believed, on the other hand, that the city of Jerusalem, and all the country round it, would fall into the hands of the king of Babylon. Moreover, Anathoth was a city of the priests, and the fields adjoining to it belonged to them; as some of them did to Abiathar the priest in his time, 1 Kings 2:26; and such fields as belonged to the priests and Levites were not to be sold, according to the law in Leviticus 25:34; to which it is answered, that this was not arable land, which the Levites might not possess; but some meadow, orchard, or garden, in the suburbs of the city, which though it might not be sold to strangers, yet might be sold among themselves; though it is more probable that this was a field that came fro, in some of his ancestors by his mother's or grandmother's side, and so might be disposed of; as it seems certain to be lawfully done, not only as it was the will of God, who could indeed dispense with his own law, was that in the way, but since it was a matter of right, and incumbent on him, as follows:

for the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it]; that is, had it been sold to another, it would have lain upon him to have redeemed it, as being next of kin, that so it might not pass to another tribe and family.

t Florus, l. 2. c. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hanameel was strictly the first-cousin of Jeremiah. In Hebrew all the terms of relationship are used in a more loose way than with us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 32:7. The right of redemption is thine — The law had established that the estates of a family should never be alienated. If, therefore, a man through poverty was obliged to sell his patrimony, the nearest relative had a right to purchase it before all others, and even to redeem it, if it had been sold to another. This is what is called the right of goel, or kinsman, Leviticus 25:25. And in the year of jubilee the whole reverted to its ancient master Leviticus 25:13.