Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Seventeen shekels of silver - literally, as in the margin, probably a legal formula. Jeremiah bought Hanameel' s life-interest up to the year of Jubilee, and no man' s life was worth much in a siege like that of Jerusalem. As Jeremiah had no children, at his death the land would devolve to the person who would have inherited it had Jeremiah not bought it. He therefore bought what never was and never could have been of the slightest use to him, and gave for it what in the growing urgency of the siege might have been very serviceable to himself. Still, as the next heir. it was Jeremiah' s duty to buy the estate, independently of the importance of the act as a sign to the people; and evidently he gave the full value.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 32:9:
Amos 8:5
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