John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 32:1

John Gill Commentary

Jeremiah 32:1

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Jeremiah 32:1

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar." — Jeremiah 32:1 (ASV)

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord

The word of prophecy, as the Targum, concerning Jeremiah's buying the field of his uncle's son, (Jeremiah 32:6); and concerning the delivery of the city of Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, (Jeremiah 32:26); and the return of the captivity, (Jeremiah 32:36);

in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar;

the same with Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a year before the taking of the city by him; for that was in the eleventh of Zedekiah, and the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar; see (Jeremiah 52:1Jeremiah 52:5Jeremiah 52:12).