Jeremiah 32:1

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

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 King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah,
3 where King Zedekiah of Judah had confined him. Zedekiah had said, "Why do you prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord: I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 King Zedekiah of Judah shall not escape out of the hands of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hands 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 attend to him, says the Lord; though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed?"
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