; A Valley focalled (as fome think from the Multitude of Se- nacheribs Army lain therez or (as others think) from the Bo- dies of MalefaCtors put to Death at Golgotha (which was near) caſt, or buried there. k So called (as 1s thought) from the aſhes of the Sacrifices carried thither. 1 Some think that che Horſe-gate had its Name from the King's Horſes led out at it. The ſumis, the whole City ſhall be built. #2 All theſe places ſhall be parts of the Holy City, and God's Name ſhall be ſantifiedsand he ſhall be worſhipped in them all. »And the City for a long time ſhall abide, and not be plucked up, nor thrown down ; for we .know after
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was 21 Years old when he began to Reign, and reigned 11 Years,
| ſo as he was 32 Years old when he was carried to Babylon, 2 Chron,
36. I1. and muſt be then 92 Years old when he died, which is hardly probable, conſidering the delicate Education, and Life of Princes, that he having loſt his Eyes, and ſeen ſo much miſery, ſhou'd continue 60 Years longer. g Though you make many Sal- lies out upon the Chaldeans thatare now befieging you, yet you ſhall be beaten in all, and nor be able to drive them from your Walls. Hitherto hath been but the Preface to the Propheticai Type, and Diſcourſe in this Chapter, which now followeth.
came unto me, ſaying, 7 Behold Hanameel the ſon of Shallum thine uncle,
many years it was plucked up by the Romans. If we interpret the word for ever of a perpetuity, the Church of God muſt here
ſhall come unto thee, ſaying, Buy thee my eld thar
be underſtood, againſt which the Gates of Hell ſhall never pre- vail, as Chriſt hath promiſed.
CHAP. XXXII.
Jeremiah 7 the Siege of Jeruſalem being impriſoned by Zedekiah. buyeth a Field, taketh Witneſſes, draweth a Writing, (ealeth and delivereth it to Baruch to preſerve, as Tokens - of the Peoples Return, I——15, He frayeth with admiration of God's Ma- jefly and Works ; and repreſenteth hk own Conflif, 16,——25. God confirmeth the Captivity for their Sins, 26, 35. but
zs in Anathoth z, tor the right of redemption z* thine to buy zt &.
h From hence we raay conclude the certainty of future con- tingency in God's Eye. The comirg of Hzname?!,was a future co:- tingency,yet certainly known to God,ſo as he could tell the Pro- phet he would come. 7 Anathoth (as appears from Foſh. 2 1. 18.) was one ofthe Cities of the Levires ; hence ariſeth a queſtion, how it could be fold to Feremiah, who by the Law might not poſſels it, Numb. 18. 20. being a Levite. Some excuſe it from the Com- mand of God, who might diſpenie with his own Law, but this ſeemeth not enough, becauſe it is faid afterwards, The Right of Redemption is thine, 2. Others therefore fay the Levites migizt
promiſeth 4 gracious Return, 36, 44+ { have ſome ſmall Poſſeſſions, tho? not plowed Land : They might ; have Houſes,and Orchards.and Gardens,in the Cities and Subut 55. I HE word that came to Jeremiah from the, But thar theſe might be fold ſeemeth contrary to the Law, L277.
LORD, in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the cighteenth year of Nebu- Chadrezzar a, |
a That is ſomething more thana year beforethe City was taken, for it was taken in the fourth Month of theeleventh Year of this Kings Reign, Chap. 39. 2. This tenth Year concurred with the elghteeeth year of the King of Babylon's abſolute Reign, who be- gan fo to Reign in the third and fourth Year of Fehoikaim, Dan.
25. 34. It istherefore rather thought to be meant of ſome tina Eftate left to Hanamee! from his Anceſtors. h The right of Redemption belonged to the next of Kin, Lev, 25. 25. Ruth : '3 So Hanameel my uncles ſon came to me in the court of the priſon, according to the word of the LORD /, and faid unto me, Buy my field, I prav chee that is in Anathoth, which zs in the country of
i. I foas Feboikaim's laſt Year was the ſeventh and eighth of | Benjamin, for the right of Inheritance z thine, and
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the redemption zs thine, buy 7? tor thy ſelf: then I | knew that this w. the word of the LQRD m.
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o And 1honght the ficld of Hanameel my uncles
ſon, that wa in Anaboth, and weighed him the mo- _ nev, ever || ſeventcen ſhekels of filver 7.
!! Or, fſe- mn That is, about 21. 2 5. 64d. a {mall Purchaſe, which argues |
wen ſre- the field here mentioned to be but ſome Orchard or Garden ;tho'
lies, and we muſt allow the price of Land, itrangely tallen at this time,
ten Pieces when the Enemy was befjeging the chiet City of the Country.
o ſilver. Tt. ſhould ſeem they were wont there to make their Payments more by Weight than by Tale.
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Faith as to what they asked. Nothing can further be neceſſary to confirm our Faith that we ſhall have what we ask, than for us to be Per{waded that the Perfon is able todoit, and alio willing.
| The Prophet beginnerh witch a Declaration of his Faith 1g God
as to the firſt, then goes on to the 1econd.
18 Thou ſheweſt loving kindneſs unto thouſands, and recompenſelt the iniquity of the fathers into the boſom of their children after them w, the great, the mighty God, the LORD of hoſts # his ame.
w This is the Name which God gave himſelf, Exod 34. 7. Deut. 5. 9, 10. and of this latter claule declarative of the Ven- geance of God in puniſhing Children for their Parents fins, are many inſtances in Scripture, Foſ. 7. 24. 1 Sam. 1s 33, 34: 3 King. 14+ 10, 11, and 21. 24.
19 Great in counſel x, and mighty in works y., (for
4 10 And I ſubſcribed the evidence, and ſealed 77, f Heb. 2nd took witneſſes and weighed him the money 11, wrote Mm 3 EG ans Sk | ThE Dalances of - : EY o 1 weat through with the Purchaſe, ſetting my hand to, and ſealing the Deed, and taking Witneflesto it, (as is ulual.)