Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 32:25
25. for the city, &c.—rather, "though," &c. read more
耶利米書 32:24-25 Cunpts
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 32:16-25
Jeremiah’s prayer 32:16-25The prayer begins with a long ascription of praise to Yahweh (Jeremiah 32:17-23), and concludes by expressing incredulity that the Lord had commanded His servant to buy the land in Anathoth (Jeremiah 32:24-25; cf. Nehemiah 9:6-37; Daniel 9:4-19). [Note: This prayer and the ones in Nehemiah 9 and Daniel 9 are similar in that they all contain praise, confession, and lament.] read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 32:24
Calamity had culminated in the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonian soldiers. They were about to capture the city, in fulfillment of what the Lord had warned His people about, but He was fully aware of present conditions. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 32:25
Yet the Lord had commanded Jeremiah to buy the field in Anathoth-even though the Chaldeans were ready to take Jerusalem!Though Jeremiah did not ask for an explanation of the Lord’s directions to him, that is the point of his prayer. He wanted an explanation for this unusual command. Did he have second thoughts after purchasing the property, did his faith waver, or was his prayer an expression of his faith?"It is a fine example of the way to pray in a desperate situation: concentrating first on... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:1-44
This chapter forms the introduction to the most continuously historical part of the book, which describes incidents in the two years preceding the final destruction of Jerusalem, viz. chs.34-43. The first of these incidents is here given, viz. Jeremiah’s purchase with all legal formality of a field of which he had the right of redemption, in order to encourage the people while the Chaldeans were investing the city by showing thus his faith in the return which he foretells in these chs.1-5. The... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 32:24
(24) Behold the mounts . . .—The mounts (better, mounds) are (as in Jeremiah 6:6, where see Note) the banks or towers of wood which formed the chief part of ancient siege operations. What the prophet had then predicted had now come to pass, and Jerusalem was now exposed to the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, which were its inevitable accompaniments. And it was at such a time as this, when the darkness was thickest, that a ray of hope for the future was given by the command to buy the... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 32:1-44
Evidences Sealed and Evidences Open Jeremiah 32:14 The placing of the deeds in an earthen vessel or vase was of course peculiar to this case. It was intended to preserve them from damp and decay in their secret hiding-place during the long years of the captivity, as Jerusalem ere many months would be destroyed by the King of Babylon. I. Consider this mode of the authentication of purchase of property as an illustration of one of the evidences of the truth of the Word of God. One of the great... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-44
CHAPTER XXXIVRESTORATION VREVIEWJeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44; Jeremiah 33:1-26IN reviewing these chapters we must be careful not to suppose that Jeremiah knew all that would ultimately result from his teaching. When he declared that the conditions of the New Covenant would be written, not in a few parchments, but on every heart, he laid down a principle which involved the most characteristic teaching of the New Testament and the Reformers, and which might seem to justify... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 32:1-44
CHAPTER 32 Jeremiah in Prison 1. Shut up in the court of the prison (Jeremiah 32:1-5 ) 2. The revelation of the Lord concerning Hanameel (Jeremiah 32:6-15 ) 3. The prophet’s prayer (Jeremiah 32:16-25 ) 4. Jehovah’s answer (Jeremiah 32:26-44 ) Jeremiah 32:1-5 . The siege of Jerusalem began in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. It was in the tenth year, a year later (Jeremiah 39:1 ) that we find Jeremiah in prison. In order to understand this imprisonment Jeremiah 37:11-21 must be... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 32:24
24. mounts—mounds of earth raised as breastworks by the besieging army, behind which they employed their engines, and which they gradually pushed forward to the walls of the city. behold, thou seest it—connected with Jeremiah 32:25. Thou seest all this with Thine own eyes, and yet (what seems inconsistent with it) Thou commandest me to buy a field. read more