Jeremiah buys a field during the siege
While confined during Jerusalem's siege, Jeremiah bought his cousin's field at Anathoth and sealed the deed before witnesses. The purchase testified that houses, fields, and vineyards would again be bought in the land (Jeremiah 32:1-15).
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah. 3For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.