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house. For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut
him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy and
say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, 32:14 Take these deeds. Title deeds to the
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and he shall take it; and Zedekiah king of Judah land, kept for security reasons in a pottery jar,
shall not escape from the hand of the would attest in a future day to one’s claim of
Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into possession. Men of Anathoth did return to
the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall Jerusalem from Babylon (Ezra 2:23).Also,some
speak with him face to face, and see him eye to of the poor of the land,left by the Babylonians
eye; then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, (chap. 39), could have included certain inhabi-
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and there he shall be until I visit him,” says the tants of Anathoth.In a still future day, God will
LORD; “though you fight with the Chaldeans, be able (vv.17,27) to make this land good to a
you shall not succeed” ’?” resurrected Jeremiah and confirm to the right
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And Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD
came to me, saying, ‘Behold, Hanamel the son descendants.
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of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying,
“Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the are great in counsel and mighty in work, for
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right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’ Then Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons
Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the of men, to give everyone according to his
court of the prison according to the word of the ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
LORD, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that 20 You have set signs and wonders in the land of
is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Ben- Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among
jamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and other men; and You have made Yourself a
the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.’ name, as it is this day. You have brought Your
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Then I knew that this was the word of the people Israel out of the land of Egypt with
LORD. So I bought the field from Hanamel, the signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an
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son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and outstretched arm, and with great terror; You
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weighed out to him the money—seventeen
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shekels of silver. And I signed the deed and have given them this land, of which You swore
sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the to their fathers to give them—“a land flowing
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money on the scales. So I took the purchase with milk and honey.” And they came in and
deed, both that which was sealed according to took possession of it, but they have not obeyed
the law and custom, and that which was open; Your voice or walked in Your law. They have
12 and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch the done nothing of all that You commanded them
son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the pres- to do; therefore You have caused all this calami-
ence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the ty to come upon them.
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presence of the witnesses who signed the pur-
chase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the to the city to take it; and the city has been
court of the prison. given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight
13 “Then I charged Baruch before them, say- against it, because of the sword and famine
ing, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of and pestilence. What You have spoken has
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Israel: “Take these deeds, both this purchase happened; there You see it! And You have
deed which is sealed and this deed which is said to me, O Lord GOD, “Buy the field for
open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that money, and take witnesses”!—yet the city has
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they may last many days.” For thus says the been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ ”
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and 26 Then the word of the LORD came to
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fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in Jeremiah, saying, “Behold, I am the LORD,
this land.” ’ the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard
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16 “Now when I had delivered the purchase for Me? Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Be-
deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to hold, I will give this city into the hand of the
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the LORD, saying: ‘Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
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have made the heavens and the earth by Your king of Babylon, and he shall take it. And the
great power and outstretched arm. There is Chaldeans who fight against this city shall
nothing too hard for You. 18 You show come and set fire to this city and burn it, with
lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the the houses on whose roofs they have offered
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings
children after them—the Great, the Mighty to other gods, to provoke Me to anger; be-
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God, whose name is the LORD of hosts. You cause the children of Israel and the children of
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