Jer 32:8

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court.

Jer 32:2; Jer 33:1

Anathoth.

Jer 32:7; 1Kgs 2:26; 1Chr 6:60

Then I.

1Sam 9:16; 1Sam 9:17; 1Sam 10:3-7; 1Kgs 22:25; Zech 11:11; John 4:53; Acts 10:17-28

that this.

That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly.

During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2� 2s. 6d.