So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.
Ver. 8. So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me.] God ruleth and boweth men's wills and all second causes according to the good pleasure of his will; he doth also so frame and contemper them among themselves, that there may be a harmony and correspondence between them.
Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.] Or, That it was a business of God - sc., for the better settling of the faithful in the assurance of a return out of captivity.