Jeremia 32:8

Lutherbibel

Also kam Hanameel, meines Oheims Sohn, wie der HERR gesagt hatte, zu mir in den Hof des Gefängnisses und sprach zu mir: Kaufe doch meinen Acker zu Anathoth, der im Lande Benjamin liegt; denn du hast Erbrecht dazu, und du bist der nächste; kaufe du ihn! Da merkte ich, daß es des Herrn Wort wäre,

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Da kam mein Vetter Hanameel gemäß dem Worte des Herrn zu mir in den Hof des Gefängnisses und sprach zu mir: Kaufe doch meinen Acker, der zu Anatot, im Lande Benjamin liegt; denn dir steht das Erbrecht und das Lösungsrecht zu; kaufe ihn dir! Da erkannte ich, daß es des Herrn Wort war,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

court: Jeremiah 32:2, Jeremiah 33:1

Anathoth: Jeremiah 32:7, 1 Kings 2:26, 1 Chronicles 6:60

Then I: 1 Samuel 9:16, 1 Samuel 9:17, 1 Samuel 10:3-7, 1 Kings 22:25, Zechariah 11:11, John 4:53, Acts 10:17-28

that this: That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2. 2s. 6d.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:25 - General Numbers 27:11 - kinsman 1 Chronicles 21:23 - Take it Isaiah 10:30 - Anathoth Jeremiah 32:25 - thou Jeremiah 37:21 - into the Ezekiel 7:12 - let Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Ephesians 1:14 - the redemption Hebrews 11:36 - bonds

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Hanameel mine uncle's son came unto me,.... Freely and voluntarily, of his own accord; though it was determined he should, as it was predicted he would; for God's decrees do not infringe the liberty of the will: this man came from Anathoth, very probably, to Jerusalem, to the place where the prophet was:

in the court of the prison, according to the word of the Lord; which had been made known before to Jeremiah:

and said unto me, buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth,

which [is] in the country of Benjamin; it belonged to that tribe:

for the right of inheritance [is] thine; the reversion of this field; it would come to him after the death of his cousin, as being next heir:

and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself; since, if it was sold to another, he, according to law, was obliged to redeem it; and therefore it was much better to buy it at once for himself:

then I knew that this [was] the word of the Lord; that it was the word of the Lord which came to him before, and that it was the will of the Lord that he should make this purchase; since there was such an exact agreement between the prophecy and the event.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The right of inheritance is thine - Hanameel therefore had no children, and at his death the land would have been Jeremiah’s by right of birth. According to the Law Numbers 35:5, it must have been part of the suburbs of Anathoth, within less than a mile, which was all the priests and Levites might cultivate.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 32:8. This was the word of the Lord. — It was by his appointment that I was to make this purchase. The whole was designed as a symbolical act, to show the people that there would be a return from Babylon, that each family should re-enter on its former possessions, and that a man might safely purchase on the certainty of this event.