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Jeremiah 32:7

in Jeremiah 32

Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

KJV

Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

This verse in Jeremiah 32

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
Hanameel was strictly the first-cousin of Jeremiah. In Hebrew all the terms of relationship are used in a more loose way than with us.

This site's exposition

The word of the Lord came unto me

on Jeremiah 32:6-10

The word of the Lord came unto me announces the sign before it happens, Hanameel's visit foretold so that when the cousin arrives asking Jeremiah to exercise the kinsman's right of redemption on a field at Anathoth, the prophet can say then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. The transaction is unremarkable in itself, seventeen shekels weighed out for a field the buyer will likely never farm, the besieging army camped outside the very town where the land lies. The bench reads the ordinariness as the point, an act of commerce performed as an act of faith in territory the Chaldeans already hold.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Version 6, 7.) And Jeremiah said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Behold, Anameel (also known as Anemeel), the son of Sellum (or Sallom), your cousin (which is said in Hebrew as Dodach), is coming to you, saying: Buy my field, which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption belongs to you.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

He prays with admiration of God's majesty and works; and represents his own conflict, ver. 16-25. God confirms the captivity for their sins, ver. 26-35. but promises a gracious return, ver. 36-44.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But it was the will of God that he should buy it, and he submitted, though the money seemed to be thrown away. His kinsman came to offer it to him; it was not of his own seeking; he coveted not to lay house to house and field to field, but Providence brought it to him, and it was probably a good bargain; besides, the right of redemption belonged to him (

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Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The prohibition to sell these suburban fields (Le 25:34) applied merely to their alienating them from Levites to another tribe; so that this chapter does not contravene that prohibition. Besides, what is here meant is only the purchase of the use of the field till the year of jubilee.
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The right of redemption is thine - The law had established that the estates of a family should never be alienated. If, therefore, a man through poverty was obliged to sell his patrimony, the nearest relative had a right to purchase it before all others, and even to redeem it, if it had been sold to another. This is what is called the right of goel, or kinsman, Lev 25:25. And in the year of jubilee the whole reverted to its ancient master Lev 25:13.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הִנֵּ֣הhere!

    hinehH2009843 times

  • חֲנַמְאֵ֗לHanamel

    chanamelH26014 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • שַׁלֻּם֙Shallum

    shalumH796727 times

  • דֹּֽדְךָ֔uncle your

    dodekhaH173061 times

  • בָּ֥א[is] about to come

    ba'H9352568 times

  • אֵלֶ֖יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH4135510 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH5595305 times

  • קְנֵ֣הbuy

    kenehH706984 times

  • לְךָ֗for <the> yourself

    lekha

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • שָׂדִי֙field my

    sadiH7704334 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בַּעֲנָת֔וֹת[is] at Anathoth

    baanatotH606815 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • לְךָ֛[belongs] to <the> you

    lekha

  • מִשְׁפַּ֥ט[the] right of

    mishpatH4941422 times

  • הַגְּאֻלָּ֖ה<the> redemption

    hageulahH1353

  • לִקְנֽוֹת׃to buy [it]

    liknotH706984 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:25

    If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

    it leads to

    • Ruth 2:20

      Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He…

    • Ruth 3:9

      “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”

    • Ruth 3:12

      Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.

  • Through

    Numbers 35:2

    “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 14:3–4

      For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 1:1

    These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:21

      So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

    • Jeremiah 32:7–9

      Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

  • Through

    Jeremiah 11:21

    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by…

    it leads to

    • Luke 13:33–34

      Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

    • Isaiah 30:10

      They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.