The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 32:2
In the court of the prison; or, the court of the guard, which adjoined the royal palace ( Nehemiah 3:25 ). read more
In the court of the prison; or, the court of the guard, which adjoined the royal palace ( Nehemiah 3:25 ). read more
The siege of Jerusalem began in Zedekiah’s ninth year Jeremiah 39:1, but was temporarily raised upon the approach of an Egyptian army. See Jeremiah 37:0; Jeremiah 38:0. read more
The prison - Or, the guard, a part of the king’s palace, probably where the royal guard had its quarters. read more
Jeremiah 32:1. The word that came to Jeremiah As the date of the following transaction and prophecy is here stated to have been in the tenth year of Zedekiah’s reign, while the Chaldeans invested the city, and Jeremiah was confined in the court of the prison, it must have been after the Egyptians had retreated back to their own land, and the Chaldeans had renewed the siege a second time. Jeremiah at the beginning, it seems, of the siege foretold to Zedekiah that the city should be taken,... read more
Jeremiah buys a field (32:1-15)At the time of Babylon’s final siege of Jerusalem, just before the city fell, Jeremiah was imprisoned (32:1-2). The king, Zedekiah, considered Jeremiah a traitor because he forecast the defeat of the city and the captivity of the king (3-5).However, Jeremiah also forecast that the land of Judah would not be lost for ever, and that one day the people would repossess it. An opportunity now arose for Jeremiah to give practical demonstration of his faith in this... read more
The Twenty-First Prophecy of Jeremiah (see book comments for Jeremiah). The word that came, &c. This chapter commences an historical part of the book, describing the incidents of the two years preceding the capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. See Jeremiah 32:2 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . the tenth . . . eighteenth year. Another contact between Biblical and secular chronology. See App-86 . read more
besieged = was besieging. the court of the prison: to which Jeremiah had access. Compare verses: Jeremiah 32:8 , Jeremiah 32:12 , Jeremiah 32:1 . read more
JEREMIAH 32JEREMIAH PURCHASES A FIELD IN ANATHOTHThis chapter records another historical incident in the life of the prophet Jeremiah. The time was during the final months of the siege of Jerusalem which resulted in the final capture and destruction of the city and the deportation of the population to Babylon. Zedekiah was on the throne of Judah, this being in his tenth year as king, which was the eighteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, that Isaiah 588-87 B.C. There is no point whatever... read more
Jeremiah 32:1. The word that came to Jeremiah— This chapter has no connection with the preceding. Nebuchadrezzar came to besiege Jerusalem the 10th day of the 10th month of the 9th year of Zedekiah; see chap. Jer 39:1 Jeremiah 52:4. Jeremiah, at the beginning of the siege, foretold to Zedekiah, that the city should be taken, and the king sent captive to Babylon; chap. Jeremiah 34:1-7. The king, irritated at his freedom, put him in prison, or at least in the court of the prison, which was in the... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-44
A story of God's sustaining grace. This whole chapter may be summed up under some such heading as this. For it begins with showing us God's servant Jeremiah in a position in which he sorely needed sustaining grace, and then it proceeds to narrate the threefold process by which this grace was communicated to him. The manner in which God sustained Jeremiah is very much akin to that in which he will sustain all his servants who may be in similar need. If any be so now, let them give heed to... read more