Jeremiah 32 (NET)

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Jeremiah 32:1¹In the tenth year that Zedekiah was ruling over Judah the Lord spoke to Jeremiah. That was the same as the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:1-2 Jer 39:1-2 Jer 25:1 2 Chr 36:11 Jer 52:4-5

Jeremiah 32:2²Now at that time, the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem. The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse attached to the royal palace of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 37:21 Neh 3:25 Jer 33:1 Jer 38:6 Jer 32:8 Jer 36:5 Jer 39:13-15 Matt 5:12 Jer 32:3

Jeremiah 32:3³For King Zedekiah had confined Jeremiah there after he had reproved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah, “Why do you keep prophesying these things? Why do you keep saying that the Lord says, ‘I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon? I will let him capture it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 34:2-3 Jer 21:4-7 Jer 26:8-9 Jer 32:28-29 2 Chr 28:22 2 Kgs 6:31-32 Acts 6:12-14 Amos 7:13 Exod 5:4 Jer 2:30

Jeremiah 32:4⁴King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians. He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon. He must answer personally to the king of Babylon and confront him face to face.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:4-7 Jer 37:17 Jer 38:18 Jer 38:23 Jer 39:4-7 Ezek 12:12-13 Jer 52:8-11 Ezek 17:13-21 Ezek 21:25-26

Jeremiah 32:5⁵Zedekiah will be carried off to Babylon and will remain there until I have fully dealt with him. I, the Lord, affirm it! Even if you continue to fight against the Babylonians, you cannot win.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 17:15 Ezek 17:9-10 Jer 21:4-5 Jer 27:22 Jer 33:5 Jer 39:7 2 Chr 13:12 2 Chr 24:20 Jer 2:37 Jer 34:4-5

Jeremiah 32:6⁶So now, Jeremiah said, “The Lord’ s message came to me,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 32:7⁷‘Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you soon. He will say to you, “Buy my field at Anathoth because you are entitled as my closest relative to buy it.”’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 1:1 Jer 11:21 Lev 25:25 1 Kgs 14:5 Lev 25:23 Lev 25:34 Lev 25:49 Mark 11:2-6 Mark 14:13-16 Num 35:2

Jeremiah 32:8⁸And then my cousin Hanamel did come to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse in keeping with the Lord’ s message. He said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.’ When this happened, I recognized that the Lord had indeed spoken to me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:7 Jer 32:2 1 Kgs 22:25 1 Sam 10:3-7 1 Sam 9:16-17 Jer 33:1 1 Chr 6:60 1 Kgs 2:26 Acts 10:17-28 John 4:53

Jeremiah 32:9⁹So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:39 Esth 3:9 Zech 11:12-13 Gen 23:15-16 Gen 37:28 Hos 3:2 Isa 55:2

Jeremiah 32:10¹⁰I signed the deed of purchase, sealed it, and had some men serve as witnesses to the purchase. I weighed out the silver for him on a scale.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:44 Jer 32:12 Deut 32:34 Isa 44:5 Jer 32:25 Job 14:17 2 Cor 1:22 Dan 8:26 Eph 1:13 Eph 4:30

Jeremiah 32:11¹¹There were two copies of the deed of purchase. One was sealed and contained the order of transfer and the conditions of purchase. The other was left unsealed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 2:27 1 Cor 11:16 Acts 26:3

Jeremiah 32:12¹²I took both copies of the deed of purchase and gave them to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah. I gave them to him in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase, and all the Judeans who were housed in the courtyard of the guardhouse.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:16 Jer 51:59 Jer 36:26 Jer 36:4-5 2 Cor 8:21 Jer 36:16-19 Jer 36:32 Jer 43:3-6 Jer 45:1-5

Jeremiah 32:13¹³In the presence of all these people I instructed Baruch,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 32:14¹⁴‘The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Take these documents, both the sealed copy of the deed of purchase and the unsealed copy. Put them in a clay jar so that they may be preserved for a long time to come.”’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 32:15¹⁵For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 9:14-15 Zech 3:10 Jer 30:18 Jer 31:12 Jer 31:24 Jer 31:5 Jer 32:37 Jer 32:43-44 Jer 33:12-13

Jeremiah 32:16¹⁶“After I had given the copies of the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 32:9-12 Jer 12:1 Phil 4:6-7 2 Sam 7:18-25 Ezek 36:35-37

Jeremiah 32:17¹⁷‘Oh, Sovereign Lord, you did indeed make heaven and earth by your mighty power and great strength. Nothing is too hard for you!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 1:37 Jer 32:27 Gen 18:14 Job 42:2 Matt 19:26 Exod 20:11 Gen 1:1-31 Jer 27:5 John 1:1-3 Luke 18:27

Jeremiah 32:18¹⁸You show unfailing love to thousands. But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. You are the great and powerful God whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:16 Deut 5:9-10 Exod 34:7 Deut 7:9-10 Exod 20:5-6 Isa 10:21 1 Kgs 14:9-10 1 Kgs 16:1-3 Deut 10:17 Isa 57:15

Jeremiah 32:19¹⁹You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:10 Matt 16:27 Isa 28:29 Ps 62:12 Jer 16:17 Job 34:21 Rev 2:23 Rev 22:12 Heb 4:13 Isa 40:13

Jeremiah 32:20²⁰You did miracles and amazing deeds in the land of Egypt that have had lasting effect. By this means you gained both in Israel and among humankind a renown that lasts to this day.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 9:10 2 Sam 7:23 Acts 7:36 Dan 9:15 Exod 10:2 Exod 9:16 Ps 135:9 1 Chr 17:21 Deut 4:34 Deut 6:22

Jeremiah 32:21²¹You used your mighty power and your great strength to perform miracles and amazing deeds and to bring great terror on the Egyptians. By this means you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 26:8 Exod 6:6 1 Chr 17:21 1 Kgs 8:42 Deut 4:34 Exod 13:14 Exod 13:9 Exod 6:1 Ps 105:37 Ps 105:43

Jeremiah 32:22²²You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 13:5 Exod 3:8 Jer 11:5 Deut 1:8 Exod 3:17 Ps 105:9-11 Deut 1:35 Deut 26:9-11 Deut 6:10 Deut 6:18

Jeremiah 32:23²³But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezra 9:7 Dan 9:10-14 Ps 78:54-55 Lam 1:18 Ps 44:2-3 Dan 9:4-6 Deut 28:15-68 Ezek 20:18 Ezek 20:21 Ezek 20:8

Jeremiah 32:24²⁴Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city in order to capture it. War, starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. Lord, you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:26 Jer 32:36 Jer 33:4 Josh 23:15-16 Ezek 14:21 Ezek 21:22 Jer 21:4-7 Jer 32:3 Zech 1:6 2 Sam 20:15

Jeremiah 32:25²⁵The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. Yet, in spite of this, you, Sovereign Lord, have said to me, “Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed.”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:24 John 13:7 Ps 77:19 Ps 97:2 Rom 11:33-34

Jeremiah 32:26²⁶The Lord ’s message came to Jeremiah:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 32:27²⁷“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 19:26 Jer 32:17 Isa 64:8 John 17:2 Ps 65:2 Num 27:16 Rom 3:29-30 Luke 3:6 Num 16:22

Jeremiah 32:28²⁸Therefore I, the Lord, say: ‘I will indeed hand this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonian army. They will capture it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:3 Jer 19:7-12 Jer 32:24 Jer 32:36 2 Chr 36:17 Jer 20:5

Jeremiah 32:29²⁹The Babylonian soldiers that are attacking this city will break into it and set it on fire. They will burn it down along with the houses where people have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods on their rooftops.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 19:13 Jer 21:10 2 Chr 36:19 Jer 52:13 Jer 39:8 Jer 44:17-19 Jer 44:25 Jer 7:18 2 Kgs 25:9 Isa 64:10-11

Jeremiah 32:30³⁰This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me from their earliest history until now and because they have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done. I, the Lord, affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:22-26 Deut 9:7-12 Gen 8:21 Isa 63:10 Jer 2:7 Jer 22:21 Jer 25:7 Jer 3:25 2 Kgs 17:9-20 Acts 7:51-53

Jeremiah 32:31³¹This will happen because the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now. They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove it from my sight.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:27 1 Kgs 11:7-8 2 Kgs 21:16 2 Kgs 21:4-7 2 Kgs 24:3-4 Jer 27:10 Jer 5:9-11 Jer 6:6-7 Matt 23:37 2 Kgs 22:16-17

Jeremiah 32:32³²I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have done this wickedness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 9:8 Isa 1:4-6 Jer 2:26 Ezra 9:7 Isa 1:23 Dan 9:6 Ezek 22:25-29 Ezek 22:6 Isa 9:14-15 Mic 3:1-5

Jeremiah 32:33³³They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:13 Ezek 8:16 Jer 2:27 2 Chr 36:15-16 Jer 26:5 Jer 35:15 Jer 7:24 John 8:2 Hos 11:2 Jer 18:17

Jeremiah 32:34³⁴They set up their disgusting idols in the temple that I have claimed for my own and defiled it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:30 Ezek 8:5-16 2 Kgs 21:4-7 Jer 23:11 2 Chr 33:15 2 Chr 33:4-7 2 Kgs 23:6

Jeremiah 32:35³⁵They built places of worship for the god Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do. It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:31 2 Chr 33:6 Lev 18:21 Jer 19:5-6 Lev 20:2-5 1 Kgs 16:19 2 Chr 28:2-3 2 Kgs 23:10 Ezek 16:20-21 Ezek 23:37

Jeremiah 32:36³⁶“You and your people are right in saying, ‘War, starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.’ But now I, the Lord God of Israel, have something further to say about this city:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:24 Jer 32:3 Jer 32:28 Eph 2:3-5 Ezek 36:31-32 Hos 2:14 Isa 43:24-25 Isa 57:17-18 Jer 16:12-15 Rom 5:20

Jeremiah 32:37³⁷‘I will certainly regather my people from all the countries where I have exiled them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and allow them to live here in safety.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:3 Ezek 34:12-14 Jer 23:6 Ezek 11:17 Jer 33:16 Ps 106:47 Amos 9:14-15 Hos 1:11 Isa 11:11-16 Jer 23:8

Jeremiah 32:38³⁸They will be my people, and I will be their God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 11:19-20 Jer 24:7 Ps 144:15 Ezek 37:27 Heb 8:10 Rev 21:7 Deut 26:17-19 Ezek 36:28 Gen 17:7 Jer 30:22

Jeremiah 32:39³⁹I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 11:19-20 Acts 4:32 John 17:21 Ezek 37:25 Ezek 36:26 Jer 32:40 Prov 14:26-27 Prov 23:17 2 Chr 30:12 Deut 11:18-21

Jeremiah 32:40⁴⁰I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:31-33 Ezek 36:26 Jer 24:7 Heb 6:13-18 Jas 1:17 1 Pet 1:5 Ezek 39:29 Isa 55:3 Jer 50:5 Heb 13:20

Jeremiah 32:41⁴¹I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 24:6 Zeph 3:17 Amos 9:15 Isa 62:5 Hos 2:19-20 Isa 65:19 Deut 30:9 Jer 18:9 Jer 31:28

Jeremiah 32:42⁴²“For I, the Lord, say: ‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:28 Josh 23:14-15 Jer 33:10-11 Matt 24:35 Zech 8:14-15

Jeremiah 32:43⁴³You and your people are saying that this land will become desolate, uninhabited by either people or animals. You are saying that it will be handed over to the Babylonians. But fields will again be bought in this land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 37:11-14 Jer 32:15 Jer 32:36 Jer 33:10

Jeremiah 32:44⁴⁴Fields will again be bought with silver, and deeds of purchase signed, sealed, and witnessed. This will happen in the territory of Benjamin, the villages surrounding Jerusalem, the towns in Judah, the southern hill country, the foothills, and southern Judah. For I will restore them to their land. I, the Lord, affirm it!’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:26 Jer 33:11 Jer 33:26 Jer 33:7 Jer 32:10 Jer 32:37 Ps 126:1-4