Jeremiah 32:10

And I write in a scroll, and seal, and cause witnesses to testify, and weigh the silver in balances;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

In Context

9and I buy the field that [is] in Anathoth from Hanameel, my uncle’s son, and I weigh the money to him—seventeen shekels of silver.

11and I take the purchase scroll, the sealed one, according to law and custom, and the open one;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:34Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

Ruth 4:9And Boaz says to the elderly, and [to] all the people, “You [are] witnesses today that I have bought all that [belonged] to Elimelech, and all that [belonged] to Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of Naomi;

Job 14:17My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.

Isaiah 8:1And YHWH says to me, “Take a great tablet to yourself, and write on it with an engraving tool of man, || To hurry spoil, enjoy prey.”

Isaiah 44:5This [one] says, For I [am] YHWH’s, || And this calls [himself] by the name of Jacob, || And this [one] writes [with] his hand, For YHWH, || And surnames himself by the name of Israel.”

Jeremiah 32:25Yet You have said to me, O Lord YHWH, Buy the field for yourself with money, and cause witnesses to testify—and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans!”

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 32:2-16

Judgments Predicted; Jeremiah Imprisoned. ( b. c. 589.) 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 Nebuchadrezzar. 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. 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will give this city into the hand… Read the whole commentary →

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