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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
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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
Shallum, Jeremiah’s uncle
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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,
Read Jeremiah 32:6‘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.”’”
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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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From This Chapter
Jeremiah 32:1
"This is 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."
Jeremiah 32:2
"Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house."
Jeremiah 32:3
"For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘The LORD says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;"
Jeremiah 32:4
"and Zedekiah king of Judah won’t escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;"
Jeremiah 32:5
"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”’?”"
Jeremiah 32:6
"Jeremiah said, “The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"
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