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Jeremiah 32:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’” "

Jeremiah 32:7

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5 and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says the LORD, “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper”’?”

6 Jeremiah said, “The LORD’s word came to me, saying,

7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”

8 “So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the LORD’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was the LORD’s word.

9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

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Hanamel

  • Shallum, Jeremiah’s uncle Shallum is the father of Hanamel.
    Source: Jeremiah 32:7
    ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”
    Read Jeremiah 32:7

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Shallum, Jeremiah’s uncle

  • Jeremiah the prophet Shallum is an uncle of Jeremiah the prophet.
    Source: Jeremiah 32:6; Jeremiah 32:7
    Jeremiah said, “The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
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    ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”
    Read Jeremiah 32:7
  • Hanamel Shallum is the father of Hanamel.
    Source: Jeremiah 32:7
    ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”
    Read Jeremiah 32:7

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