nkjv Jeremiah:32:1-16 SEEK
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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 .
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For then the king of Babylon '
s army besieged Jerusalem ,
and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison ,
which was in the king of Judah '
s house .
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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up ,
saying , "
Why do you prophesy and say , "
Thus says the LORD : "
Behold ,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it ;
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and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans ,
but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and shall speak with him face to face ,
and see him eye to eye ;
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then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon ,
and there he shall be until I visit him ,"
says the LORD ; "
though you fight with the Chaldeans ,
you shall not succeed "'?"
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And Jeremiah said , "
The word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Behold ,
Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you ,
saying , "
Buy my field which is in Anathoth ,
for the right of redemption is yours to buy it ."'
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Then Hanamel my uncle '
s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD ,
and said to me , "
Please buy my field that is in Anathoth ,
which is in the country of Benjamin ;
for the right of inheritance is yours ,
and the redemption yours ;
buy it for yourself .'
Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD .
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So I bought the field from Hanamel ,
the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth ,
and weighed out to him the money--seventeen shekels of silver .
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And I signed the deed and sealed it ,
took witnesses ,
and weighed the money on the scales .
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So I took the purchase deed ,
both that which was sealed according to the law and custom ,
and that which was open ;
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and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah ,
son of Mahseiah ,
in the presence of Hanamel my uncle '
s son ,
and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed ,
before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison .
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Then I charged Baruch before them ,
saying ,
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Thus says the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel : "
Take these deeds ,
both this purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open ,
and put them in an earthen vessel ,
that they may last many days ."
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For thus says the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel : "
Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land ."'
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Now when I had delivered the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah ,
I prayed to the LORD ,
saying :