Jeremiah 32

Jeremiah 32 is the thirty-second chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah 39 in Septuagint. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.^[1][2]

Text

• The original text is written in Hebrew language.
• This chapter is divided into 44 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text (10th century)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)^[3][4]
  • 2Q13 (2QJer): extant: verses 24‑25.

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

• Septuagint (3rd century BC; different verse numbering)
• Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Structure

NKJV groups this chapter into:

• Jeremiah 32:1-15 = Jeremiah Buys a Field
• Jeremiah 32:15-25 = Jeremiah Prays for Understanding
• Jeremiah 32:26-44 = God’s Assurance of the People’s Return

Verse 1

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. (NKJV)^[5]

The year is 588 BC.^[6][7]

Verse 4

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the Lord concerning you: ‘You shall not die by the sword.’ (NKJV)^[8]

• The prophecy is fulfilled that Zedekiah was not executed to death by the king of Babylon, as recorded in 2 Kings 25:7; Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:11.^[9]

Verse 5

‘You shall die in peace; as in the ceremonies of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they shall burn incense for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!” For I have pronounced the word, says the Lord.’ (NKJV)^[10]

• The prophecy is fulfilled that Zedekiah died of natural cause in Babylon, as recorded in 2 Kings 25:7; Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:11.^[9]

Verse 15

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.”’ (NKJV)^[11]

• "Houses and fields and vineyards": Jeremiah's purchase shows a remarkable faith and confidence of the future restoration of properties in Israel.^[7][6]

Verse 22

You have given them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them—“a land flowing with milk and honey.” (NKJV)^[12]

• "A land flowing with milk and honey": citing Exodus 3:8;^[13] which is the "gift of Promised Land."^[6]

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.^[14]

The order of CATSS based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs edition (=CATSS).^[14]

See also

• Related Bible part: Leviticus 25

Notes and references

Bibliography

• Ryle, Herbert Edward (2009). The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Paperback. BiblioBazaar. ISBN 9781117708690. 
• Huey, F. B. (1993). The New American Commentary - Jeremiah, Lamentations: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture, NIV Text. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 9780805401165. 
• The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999. 

External links

Jewish

• Jeremiah 32 Hebrew with Parallel English
• Jeremiah 32 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

• Jeremiah 32 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate