Jeremiah 32:1-5 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-15

It appears by the date of this chapter that we are now coming very nigh to that fatal year which completed the desolations of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. God's judgments came gradually upon them, but, they not meeting him by repentance in the way of his judgments, he proceeded in his controversy till all was laid waste, which was in the eleventh year of Zedekiah; now what is here recorded happened in the tenth. The king of Babylon's army had now invested Jerusalem and was carrying on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:2

For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem ,.... And had done so for some time; for the siege began in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Jeremiah 52:4 ; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house ; which showed great stupidity and hardness of heart in the king, and his courtiers, and in the people, to imprison a prophet of the Lord, when surrounded by an enemy's army, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:3

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up ,.... In prison, at least in the court of the prison; he had given orders for his imprisonment, which were executed, and it was the same as if he had done it himself; the reason of which was, as follows: saying, wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, thus saith the Lord , behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it ? meaning the city of Jerusalem, now besieged by the king of Babylon. This prophecy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:4

And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans ,.... This is a continuation of the prophecy of Jeremiah, repeated by the king to him, and which concerns himself more especially; who, upon the taking of the city, would endeavour to make his escape, as he did; but should not be able, Jeremiah 52:8 ; but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon ; not only into the hands of his army, and of his generals, but into his own hand personally;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:5

And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon ,.... As he did in chains, from Riblah, where he was brought unto him after he was taken, endeavouring to make his escape, Jeremiah 52:8 ; and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the Lord ; in taking him away by death; for he continued in Babylon to the time of his death, which was not violent, but natural; and, considering his circumstances, his captivity, imprisonment, and loss of sight, might be reckoned a visitation in mercy: though some... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:1

The word that came - This prophecy bears its own date: it was delivered in the tenth year of Zedekiah, which answered to the eighteenth of Nebuchadnezzar. It appears from 2 Kings 25:8 , that the eleventh year of Zedekiah was the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar; and consequently, that the eighteenth of that monarch must have been the tenth of the Jewish king. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:2

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 2 Kings 25:18 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:4

And shall speak with him mouth to mouth - He shall be reduced to a state of the most abject servitude. The slave was obliged to fix his eyes on every motion of the master whilst giving his orders, who often condescended to give them only by dumb signs. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:1

Verse 1 The Prophet here declares, that though he was shut up in prison, the Word of God was not bound, and that he himself was not less loose and free in his confinement than if he rambled through the whole city and visited all the lanes and the streets. He then did not desist from his office as a Prophet, though he was cast into prison. And thus we see that the course of heavenly truth cannot be impeded, how much soever the world may rage against all its ministers, and bind them in order to... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 32:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 32:1

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