Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 32:15
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
15. “It is not the only time in the history of States and Churches that he who has been denounced as a deserter and traitor [see note on the tenth year of Zedekiah, Jer 32:1 ] becomes in the last extremity the best comforter and counsellor. Demosthenes, who had warned his fellow countrymen in his earlier days against their excessive confidence, in his later days was the only man who could reassure their excessive despondency. Stanley’s J. Ch. II. 465.
For an illustration of the above transaction from Roman history see Intr. p. xviii.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Possessed – bought.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 15. Houses and fields – shall be possessed again] That is, this is an evidence that the captivity shall not last long: houses, c., shall here be possessed again, either by their present owners or immediate descendants. The young might return at least, all under ten years of age: there was no natural impossibility that they should not live till they should be fourscore.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Here is nothing of any seeming difficulty in these verses, but only why the prophet commandeth Baruch to put the evidences in an earthen vessel, which himself also expounds, that they might continue many days, that is, not defaced: had they been hid many days in the earth, they would have been rotten; had they been above ground in a box or chest, they might have been lost, or taken away by the soldiers plundering houses, or at least burnt with fire. Jer 32:15, the prophet expounds Gods meaning in this command to him, and his own design, in so formal a buying of so small a purchase, especially considering, that, very probably, Jeremiah was no great purchaser, nor very greedy of purchases. He lets them know that all this was for a sign of the truth of what God had revealed to him concerning the peoples return, though after many days, (sixty years from this time,) and also of the firm assent he gave to that Divine revelation, that purchases should one day be enjoyed again in Judea, and houses, fields, and vineyards in it should be again possessed.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. (Compare Jer 32:24;Jer 32:25; Jer 32:37;Jer 32:43; Jer 32:44).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,…. Who is the Lord God Almighty, and can do what he pleases; and is the covenant God of his people, and therefore will do them good by all his providences in the issue of things:
houses, and fields, and vineyards, shall be possessed in this land; or “bought” y in it; of which the prophet’s buying this field was a pledge and earnest; signifying, that though the city now besieged should be taken, and the people carried captive, yet they should return to their own land, and purchase and enjoy houses, fields, and vineyards again, as at the present time.
y “ementur”, Cocceius, Piscator; “vedentur”, Schmidt.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(15) Houses and fields and vineyards . . .It is a natural, though, of course, not a certain inference, that the land which Jeremiah had purchased included the three items that are thus specified.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. Possessed Literally, bought. The impending ruin would not be permanent, but there would be a restoration, and hence title deeds would be important.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jer 32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
Ver. 15. Houses and fields and vineyards, &c. ] However unlikely it may seem, like as it did to Moses, that the people should eat flesh a month together. He thought that God had made an unadvised promise, and prays him to consider that the people were six hundred thousand footmen, and that the flocks and herds would not suffice them. Jeremiah seemeth to object some such matter in his following prayer, especially Jer 32:25 . But God answereth them both alike – viz., that his hand was not waxen short, that nothing was too hard for him, that he was never nonplussed, &c. See Jer 32:27 Num 11:23 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Houses: Jer 32:37, Jer 32:43, Jer 32:44, Jer 30:18, Jer 31:5, Jer 31:12, Jer 31:24, Jer 33:12, Jer 33:13, Amo 9:14, Amo 9:15, Zec 3:10
Reciprocal: Lev 25:28 – he shall Eze 28:26 – build Eze 36:12 – they shall Hos 2:15 – I will
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 32:15. This verse is the prophets interpretation of the whole transaction just enacted in the presence of the people. If Jeremiah was willing to invest money in land that was then in control of a foreigner, he surely believed that such a condition would he removed so that he could make his own use of that land.