Jeremiah 32:10

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

Young's Literal Translation

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 to him the money — seventeen shekels of silver.

11And I take the purchase-book, 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 saith to the elders, and [to] all the people, 'Witnesses [are] ye to-day that I have bought all that [is] to Elimelech, and all that [is] to Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of Naomi;

Job 14:17Sealed up in a bag [is] my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Isaiah 8:1And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.'

Isaiah 44:5This [one] saith, For Jehovah I [am], And this calleth [himself] by the name of Jacob, And this [one] writeth [with] his hand, 'For Jehovah,' and by the name of Israel surnameth himself.

Jeremiah 32:25Yet Thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy for thee the field with money, and cause witnesses to testify — and the city hath 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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