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Jeremiah 32 — Sermon Preparation

Jeremiah buys a field in besieged Anathoth as a sign that houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought and sold in the land. Below is a research summary for Jeremiah 32, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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verses
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Hebrew words / lemmas
34
classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Jeremiah 32 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

HebrewTransliterationStrong'sCountGlosses
נָתַןnâthanH541416give, put
קָנָהqânâhH70699erect, create
עִירʻîyrH589213city, waking
סֵפֶרçêpherH56129writing, book
כַּשְׂדִּיKasdîyH37787Kasdite
יָדyâdH302711hand, open
יְהוּדָהYᵉhûwdâhH30639Jehudah

How preachers through history handled this text

34 public-domain excerpts on Jeremiah 32, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Calvin26Spurgeon6Matthew Henry1John Wesley1

“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 Nebuehadrezzar. 1. Sermo qui datus fait Jeremiae a Jehova anno decimo Zedechiae regis Jehudah; hic annus est decimus octavus Nabuchadnezer: 2. 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. 2. …”

— Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations - Volume 4, on Jeremiah 32:1–3 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Babylon 1— Jer 32:2
  • Jerusalem— Jer 32:2
  • Egypt— Jer 32:20
  • Chaldea— Jer 32:24

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