Jeremiah 32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments
  • Jeremiah 32:1-44 open_in_new

    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 general position.

  • Jeremiah 32:2 open_in_new

    Of the prison] RV 'of the guard,' i.e. of the palace sentries. For Jeremiah's imprisonment see Jeremiah 37, 38.

    6-15. Jeremiah's purchase at Anathoth.

  • Jeremiah 32:15 open_in_new

    Possessed] RV 'bought.'

    16-25. Jeremiah cannot reconcile the obvious sense of the transaction which he had just carried out at the Lord's command, with the overthrow which he had been so often bidden to announce to the guilty city.

  • Jeremiah 32:44 open_in_new

    The mountains.. the valley.. the south] The several parts of the land are specified, viz. the central (hilly) portion, the plains westward from it to the sea, and the thinly inhabited S. of Judah. Cause their captivity to return] i.e. restore them from captivity.