Jeremiah 32:6-9

Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege

6 Jeremiah said, "The word of the Lord came to me: 7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, v 'Buy my field that is at w Anathoth, x for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.' 8 Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in q the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at w Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

9 "And I bought the field at w Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and y weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:25
    Yet you, O Lord God, have said to me, "Buy the field for money and get witnesses" - though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.'
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:1
    The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
    Jeremiah 29:27
    Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who is prophesying to you?
    Joshua 21:18
    Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands - four cities.
  3. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:25
    If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
    Ruth 4:4
    So I thought I would tell you of it and say, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you." And he said, "I will redeem it.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:2
    At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:7
    Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:7
    Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 23:16
    Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
    Zechariah 11:12
    Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
    Matthew 26:15
    And said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
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