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Jeremiah Purchases a Field

32 This is[a] the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of the reign of[b] Zedekiah, king of Judah. It was the eighteenth year of the reign of[c] Nebuchadnezzar. The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard at the palace of the king of Judah where Zedekiah had confined him. Zedekiah had said,[d] “Why did you prophesy and say these things? You said,[e] ‘This is what the Lord says: “I’m about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

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  1. Jeremiah 32:1 The Heb. lacks This is
  2. Jeremiah 32:1 The Heb. lacks of the reign of
  3. Jeremiah 32:1 The Heb. lacks of the reign of
  4. Jeremiah 32:3 Lit. him, saying
  5. Jeremiah 32:3 Lit. Why did you prophesy, saying,