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Jeremiah 32:2

in Jeremiah 32

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

KJV

For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

This verse in Jeremiah 32

Commentary

10 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem - The siege had commenced the year before, and continued a year after ending in the fifth month of the following year; consequently, the siege must have lasted about eighteen months and twenty-seven days. See 2Ki 25:18.

This site's exposition

in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah

on Jeremiah 32:1-5

The date is exact, “the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.” His offense is the message that the city will fall, and the king confines the messenger. The chapter's sign of hope takes place in this same prison yard.

This site's exposition

was besieging Jerusalem

Barnes places the courtyard of the guard inside the palace, where the royal guard had its quarters. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown trace the way Jeremiah came there. When an Egyptian army lifted the siege, he was put in a dungeon and later moved to this freer custody (Jeremiah 37:12-21).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter XXXII, verse 1 and following). The word that was spoken to Jeremiah by the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, was the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar. At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the prison, which was in the palace of the king of Judah. For King Zedekiah of Judah had locked him up, saying, 'Why do you prophesy, saying, "Thus says the Lord"?

The Reformation1 voice

A commentator

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

proposed

For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

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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

So far was he from humbling himself before Jeremiah, as he ought to have done ( 2 Chron. xxxvi. 12 ), that he hardened himself against him. Though he had formerly so far owned him to be a prophet as to desire him to enquire of the Lord for them ( ch. xxi.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He was at that time put into free custody in the court of the prison. At the raising of the siege by Pharaoh-hophra, Jeremiah was on the point of repairing to Benjamin, when he was cast into "the dungeon," but obtained leave to be removed again to the court of the prison (Jer 37:12-21).
The prison - Or, the guard, a part of the king’s palace, probably where the royal guard had its quarters.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וְאָ֗זand then

    veazH227 →141 times

  • חֵ֚יל[the] army of

    cheilH2428 →246 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בָּבֶ֔לBabylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

  • צָרִ֖ים[were] laying siege

    tzarimH6696 →38 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וְיִרְמְיָ֣הוּand Jeremiah

    veyirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • הַנָּבִ֗יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030 →314 times

  • הָיָ֤הhe was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כָלוּא֙shut up

    khalu'H3607 →

  • בַּחֲצַ֣רin [the] courtyard of

    bachatzarH2691 →191 times

  • הַמַּטָּרָ֔הthe guard

    hamatarahH4307 →16 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בֵּֽית־[was] [the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָֽה׃Judah

    yehudahH3063 →819 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

    Jeremiah 33:1

    While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 37:21

      So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in…

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 32:2–3

      At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 37:21

    So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 38:28

      And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 38:13

      and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

    • Jeremiah 52:6

      By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

    • Jeremiah 38:9

      “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 32:8

    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 33:1

      While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 32:7

      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.’

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentaries; 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.