Jeremiah 32:1

Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord ¹in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, ²which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 32:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:1

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord
The word of prophecy, as the Targum, concerning Jeremiah's buying the field of his uncle's son, ( Jeremiah 32:6 ) ; and concerning the delivery of the city of Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, ( Jeremiah 32:26 ) ; and the return of the captivity, ( Jeremiah 32:36 ) ; in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth
year of Nebuchadrezzar;
the same with Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a year before the taking of the city by him; for that was in the eleventh of Zedekiah, and the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar; see ( Jeremiah 52:1 Jeremiah 52:5 Jeremiah 52:12 ) .

Jeremiah 32:1 In-Context

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

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.

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it;

4 Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

5 And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’? ”

Cross References

• 1. 32:1 [ch. 37:5, 11; 39:1, 2; 52:4; 2 Kgs. 25:2]
• 2. 32:1 [ch. 52:12; 2 Kgs. 25:8]